well sir, thank you very much for catching that mistake on my part. That was exactly the problem. It is working great! Thank you!! quick follow up question... if the VM has two disks (two VMDK's) I assume I would need to just run the command again and capture the second disk (WP-W2019-AZ01_1.vmdk), ...

Yes, destination folder was and is empty every attempt I make.

yaroslav, this has nothing to do with the destination location. The logs clearly show an error connecting to the ESXi datastore. This is a very simple setup and could be easily tested on your own systems and provide feedback. Has engineering wade in on this yet? Has any member on this forum had succ...

The main difference I see in the logs is that the successful GUI method uses a different function called ESXVmdk::ParseFile: to access the datastore whereas the failed command line method uses a function called VMwareFile::InternalParseFile:

Please see attached two log file. One is for the failed cmd line log and the other is the successful GUI log using the same identical information.

Hi yaroslav (staff) I  double, triple, quadruple etc checked the path.  Furthermore if you review the attached logs for the same process using the GUI you'll see the path is the exact same path.  You said "Please try conversion without attaching to the VM"  <<< what exactly do you mean?  I...

Just downloaded the latest version today and tried to perform a cmd line conversion of a powered off VM on VMware ESXi 6.7 to local disk as a VHD. The GUI to the same VM works fine however cmd line does not. I keep getting this error. ???ERROR: VMwareFile::InternalParseFile: CreateFile is fail - 3. ...