A customer questions the VCE recommended security guideline of disabling the ability to shrink a...

The use of this ability can result in the loss of user data inside the virtual machine disk file.

The use of this ability can result in increased host resource utilization, reducing the resources available to other virtual machines.

The repeated use of this ability can cause the virtual disk to become unavailable during the shrink process, effectively causing a denial of service.

Disabling this ability prevents the reclamation of free space on thin-provisioned disk files.