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You can then create a VM in Workstation or Server and use the existing VMDKs.<br />
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~coolsport00
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You can then create a VM in Workstation or Server and use the existing VMDKs.

~coolsport00

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or if you've got vSphere vCenter Export them.
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or if you've got vSphere vCenter Export them.

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We have a number of VM in a vSphere 4.0 environment that we would like to remove because we don't really need them and they are taking up a lot of valuable SAN space. However, we don't want to delete them, because we can foresee when we might need them on occasion; just not often enough to keep on the SAN.<br />
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Is it possible to move the VMDK files and what ever support files go along with them to a PC and if we needed to, bring them up using a VMware desktop product?
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We have a number of VM in a vSphere 4.0 environment that we would like to remove because we don't really need them and they are taking up a lot of valuable SAN space. However, we don't want to delete them, because we can foresee when we might need them on occasion; just not often enough to keep on the SAN.

Is it possible to move the VMDK files and what ever support files go along with them to a PC and if we needed to, bring them up using a VMware desktop product?

Moving vSphere VMDK to use on PC version

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.