DietPi – running in a VMware Image on ESXi 7.x

https://dietpi.com/

A virtual machine fails to power on with the error „Unsupported and/or invalid disk type“ – https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1028943

Connect to the ESXi host via SSH

# vmkfstools -i <HostedVirtualDisk_PRE> <ESXVirtualDisk>
# vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/5f3a6501-0a4c16e6-5f42-001517148cea/DietPi/DietPi_VMware-x86_64-Buster_PRE.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/5f3a6501-0a4c16e6-5f42-001517148cea/DietPi/DietPi_VMware-x86_64-Buster.vmdk

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