Failed - Unsupported or invalid disk type 7 for 'scsi0:0'. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

After I imported the cloudera quickstart vm (ftp then register new VM) in my ESXi, I could not start it up:

The problem is the underlying format used to store virtual machines on VMware Hosted products differs from the format used to store virtual machines on ESX/ESXi hosts.

See this: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1028943

Solution:

[root@ESXi01:/vmfs/volumes/5f1c7304-77d00f04-ad0f-1c697a6ba3e5/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.13.0-0-vmware] mkdir new

[root@ESXi01:/vmfs/volumes/5f1c7304-77d00f04-ad0f-1c697a6ba3e5/cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.13.0-0-vmware] vmkfstools -i cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.13.0-0-vmware.vmdk new/cloud

era-quickstart-vm-5.13.0-0-vmware.vmdk

Destination disk format: VMFS zeroedthick

Cloning disk 'cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.13.0-0-vmware.vmdk'...

Clone: 100% done.

Detach the currently attached VMDK from the virtual machine:

In the vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client, right-click the virtual machine and click Edit Settings.

Select the hard disk.

Click Remove.

Select the Remove from virtual machine option.

Click OK.

move *.vmdk to a subdir old

move the vmdk file from new to the vm dir

Reattach the newly formatted VMDK from Step 2:

In the vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client, right-click the virtual machine and click Edit Settings.

Click Add.

Select the hard disk.

Click Next.

Select the Use an existing virtual disk option.

Click Next.

Click Browse and locate the new VMDK created in Step 2.

Click Next.

Click Next.

Click Finish to close the Add Hardware window.

Click OK to close the Virtual Machine properties window.

Power on the virtual machine.

once ok can delete the subdir old and dir new (should be empty now)