Shrink Exchange Database Volume
Hi team, An unusual scenario here may be. However, we have migrated users to cloud and the disk volumes that were provisioned through the SAN is barely being used. So we would like to shrink it from lets say for ex: 1.5TB to 900GB for volumes which holds DBs and Logs. I want to know if this is supported? PS: Env is Exchange 2019 Thank you.
VHDX size reduction
I still have hopes. The dynamic VHDX container is so useful however it has a big downfall as it cannot shrink. Adding data into a dynamic VHDX keeps it expanding in size even if you delete data from it. This often gives ridiculous results when there is a 500 GB VHDX container containing only serverl GBs of data. I know that shrinking is possible with an awkward procedure of taking the VHDX offline, defragment it, null free space (with external tool as Windows cannot do that) and then use a Poweshell command and hope the size gets reduced. But we have 2021 now and there should be a way of self-shrinking dynamic VHDX that never occupis more space than data in it requires. And if data is reduced, it shrinks without any required interation. Otherwise this 'dynamic' VHDX is just a sad joke.