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I have a Windows 10 VM in VMware Workstation 16 Pro. My host operating system is also Windows 10.

When I created the VM, I selected to split the disk.

How can I export the VM to a single VMDK file?

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You can use the vmware-vdiskmanager.exe command-line tool (located in the VMware Workstation Pro installation folder) to convert virtual disks. Running vmware-vdiskmanager.exe with no arguments provides help, which shows the following example to convert a split disk (sourceDisk.vmdk) to a growable, monolithic disk (destinationDisk.vmdk):

vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0 destinationDisk.vmdk

After it succcessfully creates the new disk, you should be able to safely delete sourceDisk.vmdk (and all of its extents, i.e. the sourceDisk-s###.vmdk files) and to rename destinationDisk.vmdk to the original .vmdk filename. (I recommend moving the old .vmdk files somewhere else and testing the new .vmdk before actually deleting any files.)

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