Compacting the Virtual Disk

In Parallels Server Bare Metal, you can decrease the space your virtual machines occupy on the Parallels server's disk drive by compacting their virtual disks. Compacting virtual disks allows you to save your server's disk space and host more virtual machines and Containers on the server.

Note : Plain disk cannot be compacted.

To compact a virtual disk, you can use the prl_disk_tool compact command. For example, to compact the MyVM-0.hdd disk, you can run this command:

# prl_disk_tool compact --hdd /vz/MyVM.pvm/MyVM-0.hdd/

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To check the space that was freed by compacting the virtual disk, you can use standard Linux utilities (e.g. the df utility).