Quickly Free Up Disk Space

Using Free Disk Space Wizard , you can compress the virtual machine hard disk(s) and remove various unnecessary files to free up disk space.

To quickly compress the disk(s), remove unnecessary files, and free up disk space:

1. Shut down the virtual machine.
2. Choose File > Free Up Disk Space .

   Free Disk Space Wizard shows whether you can reclaim any disk space by removing the virtual machine snapshots, cache files and various unnecessary files such as statistical, memory dump, and crash dump files, which are generated during the virtual machine life cycle.

You can also conserve disk space by compressing virtual disks manually .