Import/migration from vmware error

Using the automatic method where you mount the vmware host as Storage in Proxmox, you might get something along the lines of https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE#Automatic_ESXi_Import:_Step_by_Step

qemu-img: error while reading at byte 14227076096: Input/output error
Logical volume "vm-101-disk-0" successfully removed.
TASK ERROR: unable to create VM 101 - cannot import from 'esxi01:ha-datacenter/datastore_01/Kali/Kali.vmdk' - copy failed: command '/usr/bin/qemu-img convert -p -n -f vmdk -O raw /run/pve/import/esxi/esxi01/mnt/ha-datacenter/datastore_01/Kali/Kali.vmdk zeroinit:/dev/data2/vm-101-disk-0' failed: exit code 1

This lead me to https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-8-1-esxi-import-storage-error-500.144049/

And

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.hostclient.doc/GUID-E3D95B5C-A888-4E21-A6A0-AFC6A3DC1192.html

1. Login to the vmware host and go edit the soap.sessionTimeout and soap.maxSessionCount to 0 (unlimited)

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1. And save.

2. Retry the import