VMDK

VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware Workstation or VirtualBox.

For the political party in Serbia abbreviated as VMDK, see Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians.
Virtual Machine Disk Format
Filename extension
.vmdk
Internet media typeapplication/x-vmdk-disk, application/x-virtualbox-vmdk
Developed byVMware
Latest release
5.0
December 20, 2011
Type of formatDisk image file
Websitecode.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7/vddk

Initially developed by VMware for its proprietary virtual appliance products, VMDK became an open format with revision 5.0 in 2011, and is one of the disk formats used inside the Open Virtualization Format for virtual appliances.

The maximum VMDK size is generally 2TB for most applications, but in September 2013, VMware vSphere 5.5 introduced 62TB VMDK capacity.

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