Newbie question: show all files under Configuration == > storage?

Hello

I have been using VMware workstation for awhile, but at work, we have been 'given' an ESX instance for development which access us via Vcenter.

From the workstation, I am not so familiar with this environment, so I hope I write at least in an appropriate place ...

Anyway, my question is that when I'm in Vcenter and go to the Configuration tab, then storage (left) to see what is different volumes, I * think * that it shows all files.  For example, if I have a VMDK, it is to show only the VMDK root and not the flat file.  I know that because we've created a guest with a 50 GB disc, and when we downloaded "the VMDK", we ended up with the smallest hard, as well as the largest flat hard-xxx.

As I said I'm more use on my computer, where I have full access to the underlying files, so it takes some time to get used to this environment.

The reason for the question is that I'm used to things like manually copying my base VMDK files when I create my own clones, but since with Vcenter, I can't 'see' all the vmdk, I kind of don't know what I'm doing deal with.

I hope this makes sense?

Thank you

Jim

Difference between VMDK and Flat.VMDK.

VMDK is a discriptor file mapped to raw disk (flat.vmdk).

Flat.VMDK is a raw disk where all system data is backed up.

For example, you create any disk on a virtual machine you will get 2 files one is vmdk and another is flat.vmdk.

VMDK are visible when you go to the configuration and storage tab and browse the data store and will not be displayed it default flat.vmdk.

But a raw disk, you can see when you connect console esxi ot via putty and go to vmfs\volumes\VM name\ flat.vmdk.

When you download, you will be able to download vmdk and flat.vmdk. If you download only vmdk on the navigation data store.

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