You said you rebooted it, but did you power it off and back on? Typically in the VMware world, you need to do that for the VMX file to update to show properly. A reboot won't do it.
Got rid of my old stuff and built a massive nested beast machine instead. Office is no longer loud.
SuperMicro X10SRH-CLN4F-O
Intel Xeon E5-2620v4
256GB Crucial DDR4 ECC
Noctua HSF
Fractal Design R5
Intel P3608 1.6TB NVMe SSD
SanDisk 16GB USB drive
Rosewill 750W PSU...