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| Factor | Detail | |--------|--------| | | Power off the VM before downloading the VMDK for a consistent file. If powered on, you risk corruption unless you take a snapshot first. | | Snapshot handling | If snapshots exist, the base VMDK may not contain recent changes. Consolidate or download the child disk (e.g., -000001.vmdk ). | | Thick vs Thin | Thin-provisioned VMDKs download at full provisioned size if copied naively. Use vmkfstools -i to convert to thin during download. | | File size | Single VMDK can be >2 TB. Ensure destination filesystem supports large files (NTFS, ext4, APFS). |