VM conf file

Hi,

I notice when a VM is created, the VMID.conf file is created on the Proxmox's /etc/pve/qemu-server/ directory even if the VM disks are on an NFS datastore. If the Proxmox has a local disk corruption or is unrecoverable, the VMID.conf is lost. Am I understand correctly it's the expected behavior? Unlike the VMware environment, it's common to keep .vmx and all VM's files in one location. Is it possible to do the same in Proxmox?

Thanks.