flat-vmdk convert server-disk-flat.vmdk --to qcow2 -o server-disk.qcow2
In a standard VMware environment, a virtual disk is split into two parts: flat-vmdk
In the VMware ecosystem, there are two main ways a virtual disk is stored: flat-vmdk convert server-disk-flat
This is the Extent file. It contains the raw binary data of the guest operating system and files. In "monolithic flat" types, this file is fully allocated upon creation, meaning if you create a 40GB virtual disk, the -flat.vmdk will immediately occupy 40GB on the physical datastore. Forensic Significance and Data Recovery flat-vmdk