This guide requires for the VMDK to be uploaded to the ESXi datastore. This information is based on VMWare’s KB1028943 but used on vSphere ESXi 6.5. If you are in a scenario where you have a VMDK file from either converting it from a different hypervisor, can’t use vCenter Converter or just uploaded the image to the datastore without converting it first and got the failed to open disk scsi0:0: unsupported or invalid disk type 2 error, you’re in the right place. Using VMWare Workstation VMDK image in ESXi
