Converting Proxmox VM to VMware Using "Move Storage" in GUI.

[wget_freedom]

Hello all.
After much searching it looks that the favored way to convert a Proxmox VM to VMware is the method of using qemu-img to convert it.
As shown here: https://www.cinderblock.tech/p/migrating-proxmox-raw-lvm-to-vmdk-for-vmware/
If you use "Move Storage" in the GUI to convert to .vmdk do you still need to clone the .vmdk to "thin" on the VMware side?
Command:
vmkfstools -i <copied-file-name>.vmdk <new-file-name>.vmdk -d thin
My understanding is that cloning may prevent disk corruption.

I do not know if "Move Storage" is using qemu-img. I noticed a difference in disk size when testing both "Move Storage" in the GUI and using qemu-img to test conversion.
I assume that any disk corruption would be noticeable on first boot in VMware?
If anyone has moved to VMware using the "Move Storage" option in the GUI I would appreciate any experience and anything to look out for.

 

[bbgeek17]

This thread seems to contain helpful information:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37794846/convert-qcow2-to-vmdk-and-make-it-esxi-6-0-compatible

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