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).

Programmatically, I'm not sure. But in Windows you can associate a drive letter to a disk number, then out in VMware you can associate a disk number to a VMDK filename.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does each do? Let's take a few minutes to look at the files, and specifically the file extensions, that you'll see within each virtual machine's folder to help you understand the role of each: ...

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 ...