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. Those files are used by the ...

Some users have been complaining that VMWare apps have been showing the following error message when trying to open a Virtual Machine. Failed to start the virtual ...

Are you talking about doing this within the VM or from the hypervisor layer? If doing this from the hypervisor you will still be backing up the whole VM file, so I don't see this buying you anything.

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

I am not able to figure out what vmkfstools wants for the path. I'm fairly confident that if I could trace what has this file open and rectify it, then I could repeat the process on other problematic ...

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