It really is a pity that the best VMDK-reading tool is not made by VMware.
Unfortunately this applies to all platforms : ESXi, Workstation and VMplayer
In this case we used an expensive thirdparty tool and rare knowhow to extract data ....
Ulli
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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...