/tags/ovftool/ Recent content in Ovftool on Susan Khanal Hugo en-us © 2026 Susan Khanal Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/migrating-vms-from-vmware-workstation-25h2-to-esxi-8/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/migrating-vms-from-vmware-workstation-25h2-to-esxi-8/ <h2 id="-problem">🧩 Problem</h2> <p>I had several Windows VMs running in VMware Workstation 25H2 on my Windows PC and wanted to migrate them across to my ESXi 8 host (<code>esx03</code>) for centralized management under vCenter.</p> <p>Along the way I hit two blockers in sequence:</p> <ol> <li> <p><strong><code>vmx-22</code> hardware family not supported</strong> during OVF import into ESXi 8</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>vTPM encryption requirement</strong> — the VM failed to create because it had a virtual TPM but VM encryption wasn&rsquo;t configured on the standalone host</p>