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Thursday, June 16, 2011

VM File Types

1. NVRAM = BIOS
2. .vmx = config file
3. –flat.vmdk = text file- VMDK and VMFS config info
4. –delta.vmdk= snapshot file, grows 16 MB+ as increments
5. –rdm.vmdk = RDM file
6. .vswp = swap file created when we power on the VM and removed if power off – the vswp size depends on the size of RAM allocated for this VM and minus the reserved
7. vmsd – to store snapshot meta data
8. VMSN – state of the snapshot file
9. vmxf – extra config info’s

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