The boilerplate answer is to shrink the VMDK... but these Linux VMs use an ext4 filesystem, which VMware does not support shrinking with their conventional tools (i.e. vmware-toolbox).

That file stores all the writes that the virtual machine makes after the snapshot is taken. Having this second VMDK file absorbing the writes for the virtual machine has several important ...

The base Linux system ext3 filesystem appears to have corrupted the VMware vmdk files, as well as irreparably damaged the OS's filesystem and system files.

Using VMware can save labor costs related to testing, because when a virtual machine crashes, it can quickly be rebooted or reinstalled. The virtual disks (files with the filename *.vmdk) are ...

Image-level backups allow you to perform a backup of a VM at the hypervisor level, where your backup software runs outside the VM and sees the VM as one or more images (e.g. VMDK files in VMware).

The VMDK file format is used for virtual machine (VM) disk image files. VMDK files contain a complete and independent virtual machine and are commonly used with VMware virtual appliances.

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 ...

Weekly quickTIP Physically Manage Virtual Disks Strategies for managing disk space in a virtual environment. By Greg Shields 12/26/2006 If you’re a fan of VMware, then you’re used to its familiar GUI ...