Director of the laboratory - cannot export to ESXi host (SMBMount unsupported)

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  I already have standard vSphere. If I want to buy Lab Manager, how much it costs?

  It is just like in this page:

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  The license does not limit the number of VM.

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  Post edited by: kjb007: changed vm in vmdk