This post from moullas reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask for a while but keep forgetting! Problem: Is there any way to programmatically match up a Windows drive letter with its ...

When troubleshooting whether it's possible to recover a lost base VMDK file using a snapshot, it helps to look at how VMDK files and snapshots work within vSphere. When we take a VMware snapshot, we ...

VMware created the Virtual Machine Disk -- VMDK -- format to make it easier to share its virtual machines, or VMs, with products produced and sold by other companies. By default, Oracle Corporation's ...

It's a good idea to make sure you understand the anatomy of a VMware VM. Let's go over the basics: Though there are many types of VMware VM files, the primary three are .nvram files, .vmx files and ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...

After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

I am always looking for ways to make a physical-to-virtual conversion go better. While I love the venerable VMware vCenter Converter for most workloads, I still find situations where I can't allocate ...

Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine. Those files are used by the ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine (VM). Those listed files are used ...