While native to VMware, this disk format is widely supported by VirtualBox and QEMU . Common Use Cases & Conversions

qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O vhdx QCE-jan22-disk1.vmdk QCE-jan22-disk1.vhdx .

The disk can be mounted directly on a host system for file-level operations or expanded using VMware's Virtual Disk Manager if you Performance Tip

Users often modify or convert this specific disk to run QRadar in different virtual environments:

It is frequently converted to the .qcow2 format to improve performance on KVM-based hypervisors.