Issue deploying a virtual appliance - unsupported disk 7

[GSS344]

Hi,

I downloaded a virtual appliance and uploaded to my datastore (Infoblox IPAM). I imported the virtual appliance by adding the disk to my inventory, however I get an unsupported disk 7 error. I ran the command on the vmware kb (link below), but a second disk does not get generated.

Can someone expalin if vm's for workstation/player are different to vsphere/esxi? Do I need to convert these using a tool, despite the file format being the same?

VMware KB: A virtual machine fails to power on with the error: Unsupported and/or invalid disk type

Thanks

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

desktop products like VMware Player and Workstation support additional virtual disk formats which are optimized for disk space savings. If you want to use a VM with such disk formats on ESXi, you either need to use VMware Converter or the vmware-vdiskmanager command line tool to convert the virtual disks to a supported format for ESXi.

André

[GSS344]

Thanks, I will try that first!