VMware VMFS

VMFS
Developer(s)VMware, Inc.
Full nameVirtual Machine File System
Introducedwith ESX Server v1.x
Partition IDs0xfb (MBR)
Limits
Max volume size64 TB (VMFS5) [1]
Max file size62 TB [2][3]
Max no. of files~130,690 (VMFS5) [2]
Features
Transparent
compression		No
Transparent
encryption		No
Data deduplicationNo
Other
Supported
operating systems		VMware ESX

VMware VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is VMware, Inc.'s clustered file system used by the company's flagship server virtualization suite, vSphere. It was developed to store virtual machine disk images, including snapshots. Multiple servers can read/write the same filesystem simultaneously while individual virtual machine files are locked. VMFS volumes can be logically "grown" (non-destructively increased in size) by spanning multiple VMFS volumes together.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference maximums5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference maximums55 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "What's New in vSphere 5.5 Storage" (PDF). VMware. 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2014-03-25.