Re: Upload my virtual machine from my external hard drive (vSphere)

Linux can read VMFS 5. Write support of VMFS 5 is highly experimental.
Reading VMFS 6 is coming but flagged as experimental at the moment.
By the way using VMFS on USB-disks is also experimental.
I understand that you think this should be easy !
But it is not. I tried it a couple of times and it only worked in one test scenario - everytime when I really needed it it was not working .,..
You will safe time and trouble if you forget the plan to use a USB-disk.
Use WinSCP or create a tar-archive from your VM - upload it to a fileserver and then use ESXi wget to download it.
WinSCP is the preferred way ...