This script was intended to recover a missing VmWare Workstation vmdk descriptor file using the existing .vmx file and the actual .vmdk files. It cannot recover the actual data, only the descriptor ...

VMware provides two different tools to fix file corruptions: vmkfstools (designed for VMDK file corruption) and VOMA (designed for VMFS generic corruption). To fix VMDK corruption using vmkfstools ...

The boilerplate answer is to shrink the VMDK... but these Linux VMs use an ext4 filesystem, which VMware does not support shrinking with their conventional tools (i.e. vmware-toolbox).

The content you keep on your virtual machine’s hard disk is stored in a virtual disk file – a .vmdk file. The number of these files may vary, though they can grow up to 2GB in size. They store the ...

OVA files require stream optimized disk image files (.vmdk) so that they can be easily streamed over a network link. vmdk-convert can convert raw disk images, and flat or sparse vmdk images to the ...

Granted we have a san but using vmdk gives us a lot fo flexability to move or expand the disks as needed. My only issue with file server of this size is backups.

How to Open VMDK in VirtualBox. VirtualBox is an open-source computer hypervisor software package maintained by Oracle. VirtualBox is capable of running on multiple platforms and handling ...