VMWare Virtual Disk Format (VMDK)

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Image types

There are multiple types of VMWare Virtual Disk Format (VMDK) data files:

• 2GbMaxExtentFlat (twoGbMaxExtentFlat); descriptor file (name.vmdk) with RAW data extent files (name-f###.vmdk)
• 2GbMaxExtentSparse (twoGbMaxExtentSparse); descriptor file (name.vmdk) with VMDK sparse data extent files (name-s###.vmdk)

Extent file types

There are multiple types extent files:

• RAW data file
• VMDK sparse data file
• COWD sparse data file

External Links

• Virtual Disk Format 5.0, by VMWare