Solaris 10 to ESXi 6.0 Impossible?

[jargo]

I've done some digging on this and found some old info which may have been for VMware WS 4.0. Having trouble booting in ESXi6. Here's what I done so far:

The source Solaris disk layout (2 disks sda & sdb in software raid)

root@PartedMagic:/# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   *       32130  1465127999   732547935   bf  Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sdb1   *       32130  1465127999   732547935   bf  Solaris

1. Booted Solaris server with Partedmagic and performed a dd of the /dev/sda disk (750GB) to a remote CentOS server

     dd if=/dev/sda/ conv=sync,noerror bs=128k | gzip -c ssh 192.168.3.88 dd of=/home/jargo/hservers.gz

2. Unzipped the file

     pv hserver2.gz | gzip -d > hserver2

3. Converted from raw format to vmdk format

     qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk hserver2 hserver2-flat.vmdk -p

     [root@JArgo-CentOS jargo]# file hserver2-flat.vmdk

     hserver2-flat.vmdk: VMware4 disk image    (I'm concerned this Vmware4 disk image may only be for a VMware Workstation where I need ESXi6 format)

4. qemu-img info hserver2-flat.vmdk

[root@JArgo-CentOS jargo]# qemu-img info hserver2-flat.vmdk

image: hserver2-flat.vmdk

file format: vmdk

virtual size: 699G (750156382208 bytes)

disk size: 620G

5. Moved flat file to VM datastore, re-checked file size:

#ls -la hserver2-flat.vmdk

-rw-r--r--

1 root

root

691013419008 Nov 10 01:05 hserver2-flat.vmdk

6. Created 'missing' vmdk descriptor file using 691013419008 / 512 to give me my RW of 1349635584 and tried geometry from vmware's vmkfstools of the flat file:

[root@MNIS-ESXi-02:/vmfs/volumes/5a01d41c-dbdbd1c1-28b1-3863bb45a2e0/hserver2] vmkfstools -g hserver2-flat.vmdk

Geometry information C/H/S is 1453521/16/63

     ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

     ddb.geometry.cylinders = "1453521"

     ddb.geometry.heads = "16"

     ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

Also tried using the geometry that VMware originally gave me for the disk:

     ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

     ddb.geometry.cylinders = "84010"

     ddb.geometry.heads = "255"

     ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

Cannot get this VM to boot Solaris for the life of me. Anyone that can help me please? I would be most appreciative.