ESXI doc

https://www.vionblog.com/migrate-virtualbox-vmware-esxi-6-5/

 Migrate VirtualBox to VMware ESXi 6.5

Using vmkfstools to clone the clone you will have 2 files Windows2008.vmdk (meta file that you can open and edit) and Windows2008-flat.vmdk (the actual data file)

To get the desired files use this commands:

cd /vmfs/volumes/volume01/yourmachine
vmkfstools -i Windows2008-tmp.vmdk  -d thin Windows2008.vmdk

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you can also limit the number of old logs that are retained by editing the VM advanced setting "vmx.log.keepOld"

vmx.scoreboard.enabled = "FALSE"

See volvo.vmdk

To set this configuration utilize the vSphere interface as follows:

Select the VM then select Actions followed by Edit Settings.

Click on the VM Options tab then expand Advanced.

Click on EDIT CONFIGURATION.

Click on ADD CONFIGURATION PARAMS then input log.keepOld with a value of 10.

Click OK, then OK again.

To set the number of log files to be used to 10, run the following PowerCLI command:

# Add the setting to all VMs

Get-VM | New-AdvancedSetting -Name 'log.keepOld' -value '10'

- Reclaiming disk space from thin provisioned VMDK files on ESXi (2136514) https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2136514

Open an elevated command prompt.

Run this command

sdelete.exe -z drive_letter:

 Run this command:

vmkfstools -K disk_name.vmdk

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