Steps to Reproduce Try to upload VMDK file to datastore on VMWare ESXi host using vsphere_file resource. Important Factoids References #0000 Community Note Please vote on this issue by adding a 👍 ...

Copying VMDK to VDI in VirtualBox. VMware created the Virtual Machine Disk -- VMDK -- format to make it easier to share its virtual machines, or VMs, with products produced and sold by other ...

Programmatically, I'm not sure. But in Windows you can associate a drive letter to a disk number, then out in VMware you can associate a disk number to a VMDK filename.

The VMDK file format is used for virtual machine (VM) disk image files. VMDK files contain a complete and independent virtual machine and are commonly used with VMware virtual appliances.