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Thank you for your kind answer Continuum.
Yes, I know that. There is in fact an easier way to accomplish the same. Just get a list of the virtual disk extents by running:
vmkfstools -t0 name.vmdk
That will return a list of the extents compounding the Virtual Disk mapped to the offsets in the device.
That method has nonetheless a huge caveat. The device is tuned to only allow reading a byte at a time. That makes reading sizes above some MBs something unfeasible, unless you don't mind waiting some hours to read some big chunk of data.