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gomzi90
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Vcloud issue while importing

I'm using vcloud director for the first time. We have a requirement to move the on-prem VM's to AWS. When I create a snapshot for one of the VM which is 8gb in vcloud. I see multiple files in the datastores.

ctk.vmdk

flat.vmdk

ctk.vmdk

delta.vmdk

Snapshot23.vmsn

.vmx

.vmsd

.nvram

.vmx~

So, I consider a flat.vmdk which was the size of the VM(wild guess) 8gb. When I imported it in AWS and tried to convert it into AMI. It failed apparently "StatusMessage": "ClientError: Disk validation failed [Unsupported specified file format]","

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version 8.0.2.4348775

can someone please help. Which file to consider for migration.

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