When you run a virtual machine on a disk that uses undoable mode, Workstation stores all writes to the disk in a temporary file (.REDO) on the host file system for the duration of the session. When the virtual machine is powered down, you have the choice to:
You can choose the location where these REDO logs are stored. By default, the REDO logs are stored in the same directory as the .vmdk file that contains the virtual machine configuration. (Except that REDO logs for plain disks are stored by default in the same directory as the .pln file). The log file for a virtual disk called filename is called filename.vmdk.REDO.
Note: If you have a disk on a remote file system, you may see disk performance improvements from storing the REDO logs on a local file system.
To set the location for the REDO logs:
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