Why is the size of VMware memory snapshot (.vmem) very small (less than 1 KiB)?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When RHEL VM running on VMWare is suspended or took snapshot with memory, the memory image file (vmem extension) produced is a small text file

Environment

  • Guest virtual machine running on VMWare
  • Virtual machine datastore is [VMWare] vSAN

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