VMware created the Virtual Machine Disk -- VMDK -- format to make it easier to share its virtual machines, or VMs, with products produced and sold by other companies. By default, Oracle Corporation's ...

After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

We recently had a volume free space incident. As a result of that, it occurred to me that I have no practical way to observe the amount of free space on a VM's virtual disk over time. The "Datastore", ...