Kai booted their laptop, cracked knuckles, and began the hunt. They remembered reading that VDDK packages were offered by VMware and required matching the kit version to the vSphere hosts. It felt like archaeology: hunt down the right release notes, find the matching build number, and avoid the trap of installing a version incompatible with the cluster’s ESXi hosts.
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