- Check VMware hard disk type
- Shut down VM
- Enable SSH on VMware ESXi host
- SSH into the ESXi host
- Navigate to the VM folder
- Clone the VMDK to a thin provisioned disk using vmkfstools
vmkfstools -i <sourcename>.vmdk -d thin <targetname>.vmdk
- Rename old flat file
- Rename new flat file
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