VM Optimizer 2.0

Size does matter

"Invirus sent me a note about a product they have to opimize virtual machine images. Finally got around to trying out the product and it’s pretty slick. It basically rips through your VMs and shrink them down without affecting the OS inside of them. VM Optimizer 2.0 will work with files from both VMWare and Virtual PC/Virtual Server vhd files (although in my test I tried shrinking an identical file of both types and for whatever reason, the Virtual PC file showed better compression).
 
What was useful for me was that I had a large (7GB) VM that I wanted to move to another external drive...I ran the optimizer and it shrunk it down to 3.3GB...

 

There’s a 30 day trial available which is a full version so you can try out all the features and see if it works for you..." 

Very interesting. Sounds like a great tool for those base/master VM’s that we keep around....



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