VMDK File Location
On ESXi hosts, virtual machine disk (VMDK) files are usually located under one of the
/vmfs/volumes
, perhaps on shared storage. Storage volumes are visible from the vSphere Client, in the inventory for hosts and clusters. Typical names are datastore1
and datastore2
. To see a VMDK file, click , right-click Browse Datastore
, and select a virtual machine.On Workstation, VMDK files are stored in the same directory with virtual machine configuration (VMX) files, for example
/path/to/disk
on Linux or C:\My Documents\My
Virtual Machines
on Windows.VMDK files store data representing a virtual machine’s hard disk drive. Almost the entire portion of a VMDK file is the virtual machine’s data, with a small portion allotted to overhead.