Ciao 

In the past I have done a similar operation with a Linux VM on VMware Workstation 16, I practically created a new VM with a paravirtual controller and as a disk, I assigned the disk of the old VM where it was configured with LSI controller.

The VMX of new VM with pvscsi

scsi0.virtualDev = "pvscsi"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
sata0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "C:\VM\Ubuntuv2\Ubuntu 64-bit.vmdk"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"