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Determine the Disk Format of a Virtual Machine
You can determine whether your virtual disk is in thick or thin format.
Procedure
1 Select the virtual machine in the inventory.
2 Click Edit Settings to display the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box.
3 Click the Hardware tab and select the appropriate hard disk in the Hardware list.
The Disk Provisioning section on the right shows the type of your virtual disk.
4 Click OK.
VMDK file information
Virtual machine has two vmdk file, one file is descriptor file (human readable format( and other contains actual data of OS (in binary format).
Below is screen capture of descriptor file, which has vital information which is also repeated in vmx file
