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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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File structure

A VM is composed of several files that typically reside on a datastore in the VMs folder. The VM settings are managed through vSphere Client, but you can also use the command line using PowerCLI, vCLI, or the vSphere Web Services SDK. The core files that compose a VM are as follows:

  • .vmx: This is a plaintext file that stores the configuration of the VM. The file contains information related to the hardware that resides in the VM, such as the processor number, the amount of RAM, the disks, the MAC address, the virtual hardware version, the number of NICs connected, the virtual disk location, and other configurations of the virtual machine, as shown in the following example:
config.version = "8"virtualHW.version = "14"nvram ...
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