VMFS Recovery

Recovers data from VMware ESXi servers

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  System Requirements:

  • 8GB of RAM, 16+GB of RAM is recommended

  • 100MB of disk space


  Supported file systems:

  • VMFS 6, VMFS 5, VMFS 4, VMFS 3

  • NTFS, ReFS, FAT

  • EXT 3, EXT4

  • XFS, ZFS, BtrFS

  • APFS, encrypted APFS, HFS, HFS+

  • ReiserFS, Reiser4

  • UFS2, ROMFS


  Supported RAID technologies:

  • RAID 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5EE, 5R, 6, 1+0, 0+5, 0+6, etc

  • Adaptec®, HP®, Dell®, MegaRAID®, Silicon® RAID Controllers

  • Linux software RAID, mdamd RAID

  • DDF compatible devices

  • LDM, Storage Spaces

  • LVM based Hybrid RAID disks

  • RAID-Z, RAID-Z1, RAID-Z2

  • JBOD disks

  • VMFS software RAID and dynamic disks

  • RAID built on NVidia®, Intel® mainboards


  We recover

  • VMDK images created in all versions of ESX Server or VMware

  • Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Box

  • VMDK images from healthy and corrupted VMFS disks

  • VMFS drives stored on working or faulty RAID arrays

  • VMFS drives stored on corrupted and inaccessible hard drives

  • Disks with VMFS, NTFS and ReFS deduplication

  • Parallels Virtual Machine disk images

  • VMDK images stored in disks formatted by VMware(R) ESX Server(tm)

  Compatibility

  • VMFS partitions created in VMware vSphere 6.7 and ESX/ESXi Servers

  • VMFS 6, VMFS5, VMFS4 and VMFS3

  • VMFS drives stored on all types of RAID arrays

  • Windows 7, 8, 10, 11

  • Windows Server 2008 R1/R2, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022

  Supported disk images

  • ISO, RAW

  • Linux DD, QEMU, DMG

  • Oracle VDI

  • Microsoft VHD\VHDx

  • VmWare VMDK

  • Parallels PVM

  • EnCase and ProDiscover forensic disk images

  • Proxmos QCOW2

  Features

  • Can mount virtual disks to system as drive letters allowing further access to virtual disks like it's a simple logical disk

  • Recovers data from ESXi remotely

  • SSH and iSCSI support

  • Saves recovered files and folders on local or remote locations

  • Recovers information bypassing Windows access restrictions



Testimonials

The restore completed beautifully and it appears we got everything we needed. I can't say how much I appreciate the effort put forth and the professionalism exhibited. Thank you so much!
Have a great day and thank you again Eugene. You're a lifesaver.
Rick
Program has actually performed what stated, I'm pleased, thank you.
Dagmar Jackson
I was very pleased with your service. Data were all recovered and my customer was very pleased. Thank you!
Berit Ulverås Rullander
I had a great experience with your company, however, hope I never have to use you again but I will tell other people about your business. thanks
Myrna Holzworth
VMFS Recovery have succeed in recovering data from our server. My boss was very pleased. Thank You
Ian Pitmon
They did a great job of recovering my data from a corrupt RAID. It was costly, but true professionals worth it!"
Gayle Sleiman
Thank you.... Eugene has explained everything very clear. I hope I don't have to use your services again, but if I do, I would certainly come back. well done!
Shaona Lynn
I am extremely pleased with your service. You recovered all required Virtual Machines. Your representative was knowledgeable and always knew the status of my case. Great Job!
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VMFS Recovery

Diskinternals VMFS Recovery™ is a tool to restore data from various Virtual Machine File Systems(VMFS). The software provides many thorough recovery procedures that you can rely on. VMFS Recovery is an indispensable and the most powerful tool for anyone using virtual machines, including VMware, VirtualPC, VirtualBox, Parallels, EnCase, and ProDiscover disk images. Among other benefits, it features VMware ESXi, ESX Servers and vSphere 6 support.
VMFS Recovery works with different file systems

VMFS

VMware virtual machines are most common in the business environment. They are using their own file system to store VM data. Like we said before it is called VMFS. Diskinternals VMFS Recovery™ supports VMFS versions 3, 4, 5, and 6, partitions up to 64 TB, files larger than 2TB, and VMFS6 drives with more than 100,000,000 files on them. You can choose one of two modes depending on the task. Fast mode is recommended for existing or deleted file recovery when a disk is safe or slightly corrupted. Full mode helps to recover your data when a situation is far more complex.

VMFS Recovery™ mounting VM disk images

Different reasons can lead to a VMFS failure. Two widespread ones are damaged blocks and corrupted RAID arrays. Some cases can get very complicated! For example, a relatively big cluster of multiple virtual PCs is controlled by Vmware ESX Server and is stored on a RAID array. Suddenly either a RAID Controller or a RAID array fails.

VMFS Recovery™: RAID reconstruction

Built-in RAID Recovery

Diskinternals VMFS Recovery provides a corrupted RAID array reconstruction even if a dedicated RAID controller is damaged or inaccessible. With the JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 1E, 4, 5, 5R (HP RAID 5), RAID 6, 1+0, 5+0, and 6+0 support VMFS Recovery will restore virtual machine disks from safe and corrupted hard drives and RAID arrays allowing it to access corrupt data and then recover it like from a healthy VMFS disk.

VMFS Recovery: disks and RAIDs

VMware ESXi Server Recovery

You can recover virtual PC images from VMware ESXi servers. In this case, VMFS Recovery performs a two-stage procedure. During the first stage, a damaged VMware ESX/ESXi storage is recovered, as soon as it's done and VMFS Recovery has an access to separate virtual machines and their VDMK disks, the second stage is processed. VMFS Recovery analyses and recovers data inside VMDK files rebuilding guest file system and disk structures.

VMFS Recovery™: exporting recovered data

Online Recovery

To preserve the integrity of deleted or damaged data, it's better to stop the VMware ESXi server and lock the disks from any disk operations. However, it may be impossible to stop the production server. Another common case is when the VMware ESXi environment is leased and you have no physical access to the server. In such cases, you are able to recover your data by SSH or iSCSI network protocols. They help access the ESXi server online and recover lost data.


Built-in preview

Mount recovered VMDK file in Diskinternals VMFS Recovery to check the integrity of recovered data before the purchase. A detailed guide on this procedure is available here.


System Requirements

You need a standard PC with Windows 7 or higher to run Diskinternals VMFS Recovery. However, we would recommend you use Windows 10 with 16 Gb of RAM as the software builds an entire VMFS structure in RAM before recovering. The larger your VMFS disks or ESXi Server the more RAM would be appreciated. Please also note the disk space: VMFS Recovery needs about 70Mb to install but a lot of free disk space to save recovered data. It depends on the size of VM data, you are recovering.

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