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VMware offers many options for virtual disk layout, encapsulated in library data structures described here.

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VMDK File Location
On ESXi hosts, virtual machine disk (VMDK) files are usually located under one of the /vmfs/volumes, perhaps on shared storage. Storage volumes are visible from the vSphere Client, in the inventory for hosts and clusters. Typical names are datastore1 and datastore2. To see a VMDK file, click Summary > Resources > Datastore, right-click Browse Datastore, and select a virtual machine.
Virtual Disk Types
The following disk types are defined in the virtual disk library:
Data Structures in Virtual Disk API
Here are important data structure objects with brief descriptions:
Virtual Disk Transport Methods
VMware supports file-based or image-level backups of virtual machines hosted on an ESXi host with SAN or NAS storage. Virtual machines read data directly from a shared VMFS LUN, so backups are efficient and do not put significant load on production ESXi hosts or the virtual network.

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