If you transform the 200 HEX value to a binary and decimal format, you will get:Ģ00 HEX = 1000000000 Binary = 512 Decimal The vmdk file is opened in HEX editor.Īs you can see, the embedded disk descriptor data is written to the monolithic vmdk file of the Workstation format from the 0x200 address, which is the number of the first byte. On the right side of the screenshot, you can set eyes on the data of the virtual disk descriptor that is embedded into a single vmdk file of the VMware Workstation format. On the left side of the screenshot below, you can see a virtual disk descriptor of the ESXi format (a vmdk file that can be opened with any text editor). A virtual disk descriptor defines the structure of the virtual disk, virtual disk geometry, virtual hardware version, and IDs.Ī virtual disk descriptor is represented as plain text. As for virtual disks of the VMware Workstation format, a virtual disk is represented as a single diskname.vmdk file (monolithic sparse) which is an extent data file that contains an embedded virtual disk descriptor. The pattern of a virtual disk descriptor name is diskname.vmdk and the pattern of a virtual disk extent name that contains all raw data is diskname-flat.vmdk, accordingly. However, virtual machines residing on ESXi servers use a slightly different format of vmdk virtual disks – a virtual disk descriptor and virtual disk extent that contains raw data of the virtual disk are two separate files on the ESXi datastore. vmdk extension of files and is used by VMware and VirtualBox virtual machines. VMDK is a virtual machine disk file format, which is the open format developed by VMware. Is there anything I could do differently in ESXi to prevent this? Or, Is there a way for me to use the ssh console to directly convert the vmdk to an ISO or something? I am very beginner to ESXi because I just started with my homelab a few days ago.DISCOVER SOLUTION How the Data is Stored in VMDK Files The Virtual Disk that I used to create the IMG booted fine in VMware ESXi so I have no idea what went wrong.
Then the LoadMaster shuts down and the IMG file corrupts. After booting the IMG file in the physical LoadMaster, it started spitting out errors about missing directories, then went to the login screen for 10 seconds, then displayed the following text: I installed Ventoy on a USB and put my IMG on there. I then turned that VMDK into a raw IMG file. So, I imported a VM into my ESXi server that had all of the data on it. The seller destroyed the LoadMaster's original hard drive that had its OS.
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