


The best solution for repairing VMDK files is VMFS Recovery™ by DiskInternals. The maximum size of a VMDK file used to be 2 TB for most applications, but now it has been extended up to 62 TB. A VMDK file can be either fixed(aka “thick” provisioned) or dynamic(aka “thin” provisioned). The primary function of a VMDK file is to store all the contents of virtual machine on a hard disk drive. VMDK has always competed with Microsoft VHD and VHDX formats, which are used on virtual servers. VMDK is a file format for virtual machines that is supported not only by VMware, but Virtualbox, QUMU, and XVM, among other virtual machine applications. All the data in a Vmware virtual machine is stored in a single file, in the VMDK file format. Here we are discussing system virtualization, which means running multiple operating systems on the same machine by storing the data in the form of an image in other words, a replica of the data. VMware is a company, that develops computer software and is an industry and global leader in cloud infrastructure, business mobility, and virtualization of systems.
