Release: VMware Labs Guest Reclaim fling

On 1st of July VMware Labs released Guest Reclaim a tool intended for virtualized guests with NTFS filesystems (supported OSes are XP onwards up to Windows 7 for clients and servers until Windows 2008).

Basically Guest Reclaim reclaims dead space from volumes hosted on a thin provisioned SCSI disk.

Features

  • Reclaim space from Simple FAT/NTFS volumes
  • Works on WindowsXP to Windows7
  • Can reclaim space from flat partitions and flat disks
  • Can work in virtual as well as physical machines