The following issue will likely occur when importing a Virtual Disk vmdk into an existing machine, returning the following error when attempting to start the VM :
Unsupported or invalid disk type 2 for ‘scsi0:0’. Ensure that the disk has been imported
In my case, this happened importing Arista vEOS lab image and usually the result of using the wrong virtual disk controller for the imported virtual disk.
Looking at the vmdk file, locate the following parameter :
ddb.adapterType =
In my case, it was an IDE controller :
ddb.adapterType = "ide"
Therefore changing the vDisk controller from SCSI to IDE fixed the issue.