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Most recent Linux distributions offer the installation of VMware Tools via their package management systems, under the name Open VM Tools. For information about the specific procedure for each OS, see the VMware documentation for VMware Tools. The procedure for installing VMware Tools varies depending on the operating system of the virtual machine.

A user account with access to vSphere (created in the OVHcloud Control Panel).

This guide explains the steps you need to follow in order to proceed with installing them. vmdk (the “K” must be capital).VMware Tools improve the performance of a virtual machine and enable many of its simple features to be used in VMware products.

run the following command: vmkfstools -K.

list the vmdk files of the folder > ls -lh *.vmdk.

navigate to the VMDK file location onthe data store.

power off the VM once the task is done.

run the command against all of the partitions (or select the partitions you need to shrink): sdelete.exe -z x:.

Navigate to the sdelete tool folder path.

run the tool inside the guest OS in CMD.

This mechanism is available for both Windows and Linux guest operating systms.

VMware has solved this issue in vSphere 6.5 with a new auto clean feature for think provisioned VMDK, but if you are using older versions of vSphere then the manual method is the only way to accomplish this. When you delete data on thin-provisioned disks, the physical size of the VMDK file for the disk remain the same as before deleting the data, thin-provisioned disks grow in one direction, but doesn’t shrink automatically, and this is a big issue for vSphere admins., lets assume that you have a 5GB thin-provisioned disk with 2GB of data on it, then the actual size for the VMDK file will be 2GB, the VMDK file size will remain 2GB after deleting all of the data on it.