If I understand your question correctly you want something that would look similar to this:
This is part of the VMs vmx-file ...
....
scsi0:0.filename = /path-one/dir/name.vmdk + /path-two/dir/name.vmdk
...
Is that what you want ?
That is not possible with any VMware product.
However you can use workarounds to acchieve that result. But this workarounds are quite ugly ....
Here is one that I tried myself ...
Create a Windows VM with one disk.
Add a second disk.
Convert the one disk into a dynamic disk and assign the second disk to act as the mirror of disk 1.
Now you can work with the VM as usual.
The vmx looks like this
...
scsi0:0.filename = /path-one/dir/name.vmdk
scsi0:1.filename = /path-two/dir/name.vmdk
If one of the vmdks becomes unavailable the VM will no longer start. Lets say path-one is dead ...
But you can then adjust the vmx so that it looks like this:
...
# scsi0:0.filename = /path-one/dir/name.vmdk
scsi0:1.filename = /path-two/dir/name.vmdk
Now you can boot the VM again and must switch boot-order to the second vmdk.
I tried this to proove the concept on the ESXi platform.
But it basically will work on all other platforms as well.
This approach works - but IMHO it is a really ugly "solution"
By the way - the edit of the xml in VMserver 2 did not do something like this - not at all.
That hack just works around a limitation of VMserver2 that allowed one path for vmx-files and vmdks only.
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I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...
