When you’re running ESXI without vCenter, sometimes really niche things come up and you have situations that are kind of a pain without the appropriate management software so sometimes you gotta be a little janky.
So Primarily you’re going to want to power off the VM you want to clone.
Then you want to right click the VM and chose Edit Settings.
- In the Virtual Hardware tab take not of the name and location of your Disk File.
Next you’re going to open your Datastore Browser by going Storage and in the Datastores tab click the Datastore Browser button.