Manually consolidate snapshots

If you cannot see any or all of your snapshots in the Snapshot Manager, and you do not have sufficient disk space for Fusion to consolidate them, you must consolidate your snapshots manually.

To consolidate data from the snapshot(s) and from the main virtual disk, use the command-line utility vmware-vdiskmanager to create a new virtual disk.

1. Shut down the virtual machine. 

2. Quit VMware Workstation. 

3. Open Windows Explorer and locate the virtual machine.

4. Open Command Prompt as an Administrator.

5. Copy and paste this text into Command Prompt:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe" -r 

6. Give a space.

7. From your virtual machine folder, drag the current virtual disk file into the Command Prompt window.

8. Give a space

9. Copy and paste this text into Command Prompt: 

-t 0

10. Give a space

11. Type the new location for the virtual disk, followed by a forward slash ( /), and enter a new file name (for example : NewDisk.vmdk).

Example:

"C:\Users\username\Desktop\NewDisk.vmdk"

12. The command will look similar to this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\username\VMware Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe" -r "D:\Virtual Machines\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmdk" -t 0 "C:\Users\username\Desktop\NewDisk.vmdk"

13. Press Enter

14. A message that says Converting... followed by a percentage appears. The length of the process varies depending on the size of the virtual machine.

You may then create a new virtual machine based on this 'NewDisk.vmdk" file