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