How to shrink Hyper-V VHD to a smaller size

Question

Hi guys, I need help urgently. I initially created a (golden image) Win 7 VM with lot off apps installed. I assigned 130G. now I discovered that I don't need 130G on this machine, is there a way of shrinking my disk to 40G? when I shrink it on disk management I can see unallocated space but how to get it back to my SAN? when I edit a disk on Hyper v console it only show Compact and Expand there is no shrink option. or is there a way that I can great new VM using old image without re-installing everything because It will take 5hrs to install all apps but disk size must be small. My host is Win Server 2012 R

Answer 1

Hi Guys,I wrote below script for creating new user and granting it read only access but I'm getting attached error.Please help...Powershell$HostList = Get-Content C:\Users\malvika\Desktop\Hostnames.txtforeach ($server in $HostList){ $HostDetail = $server.Split(',') $HostName = ($server -split ',')[0] $userid = ($server -split ',')[1] $password = ($server -split ',')[2] $VCimpl = Get-VIServer -Server $HostName -User $userid -Password $password [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("vmware.vim") # The name of the role to be assigned $roleLabel="Read-Only" #craete user New-VMHostAccount -Id Test -Password U!er -Description "Test User" #The name of the principal (user or group) that the role is assigned to $principal="Test" # set to false if principal is a user , not a group $principalIsGroup = $false $propagateToSubEntities = $true ...