

The resize operations ("shrink" in this case) are about changing how much space is made visible "Shrink" and "compact" are not the same operation. The referenced article is not about compacting a VHDX. Nice to have that issue addressed in your post.Įven after Compacting, GET-VHD still shows the same numbers for Size and MinimumSize.not sure why, and they are about 250GB greater than the FileSize value. " But you don't state why these would be the same and what to do if they are, even though it doesn't seem that they should be the same, given all the unallocated space in the guest disk.

State: " In order to make this disk eligible for shrinking, the I see that in your screen shot in your post as well, to which you vhdx in question is of type Dynamic, but still showed (after creating 300GB of unallocated space in the guest disk), that the size and MinimumSize were equal. vdhx in question.only then did it actually reduce the size of the file size.
