This reads the raw flat file and wraps it with a fresh descriptor.
In VMware virtualization environments, a Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) file serves as the storage backbone for guest operating systems. A VMDK typically consists of two parts: a small text descriptor file ( .vmdk ) and a larger data file ( .vmdk ). In older or "thick provisioned" configurations, this data file is often referred to as a (usually denoted as -flat.vmdk ). flat vmdk recovery