Download Files or Folders from vSAN Datastores

You can download files and folders from a vSAN datastore. For more information about datastores, see vSphere Storage.

The vmdk files are downloaded as stream-optimized files with the filename <vmdkName>_stream.vmdk. VMware stream-optimized file format is a monolithic sparse format compressed for streaming.

You can convert a VMware stream-optimized vmdk file to other vmdk file formats using the vmware-vdiskmanager command‐line utility. For more information, see Virtual Disk Manager User’s Guide.

Procedure

1. Navigate to vSAN Datastore.
2. Click the Files tab and then click Download.
   You see a message alerting you that vmdk files are downloaded from the vSAN datastores in VMware stream-optimized format with the filename extension .stream.vmdk.
3. Click Download.
4. Locate the item to download and then click Download.