Shrink Windows Volume and Backing Hyper-V VHDX
For the Hyper-V admin, you may find yourself needing to shrink a Windows volume and reclaim space from the underlying VHDX. In the following scenario, this is possible as the environment is using dynamically expanding disks. Although dynamically expanding virtual hard disks provide various benefits, they require manual intervention to reclaim space. Luckily, it’s not only possible but fairly easy to shrink Basic Windows volumes and reclaim the space capacity from the backing Hyper -V Virtual Hard Disk (VHDX). Note –…