I am working on the base image now. My next step is to run sysprep. I am wondering why the instructions don’t mention anything about shrinking or compacting the VHDX file so it takes less space. Isn’t that a common practice when creating base images?
Interesting question . I don’t really understand why you need to shrink so much .. the key is get reasonalbe performance from your SharePoint VMs. The VHDX will grow as needed . since the parent is going or should be set readonly, all your growth will be in the child disk inc the page file.