VMware Virtual Machine(VM) Configuration File types
Introduction–
When you create VM (Virtual Machine) in VMWare based Virtualization platform. VMware creates few VM configuration files in folder with VM name in Datastore (Local Storage or NFS/SAN). Please find the table which describes files types in vmware…
| File | Usage | File Description | File Format |
| .vmx | .vmname.vmx | Virtual machine configuration file. | ASCII |
| .vmxf | vmname.vmxf | Additional virtual machine configuration files, available, for example, with teamed virtual machines. | ASCII |
| .vmdk | vmname.vmdk | Virtual disk file. | ASCII |
| .flat.vmdk | vmname.flat.vmdk | Preallocated virtual disk in binary format. | Binary |
| .vswp | vmname.vswp | Swap file. | |
| .nvram | vmname.nvram or nvram | Non-volatile RAM. Stores virtual machine BIOS information. | |
| .vmss | vmname.vmss | Virtual machine suspend file. | |
| .log | vmware.log | Virtual machine log file. | ASCII |
| #.log | vmware-#.log | Old virtual machine log files. # is a number starting with 1. | ASCII |
Thank you,
Arun Bagul
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