VMFS Recovery™ documentation, guide and help

Contents

• Methodology of VMFS Recovery™ usage

• Accessing VMFS datastore
  • Remote ESX Server recovery via iSCSI

  • Remote ESX Server recovery using SSH (SFTP)

  • Mapping a VMFS disk to Guest OS as RDM disk

• Opening a disk

  • Scan cache guide and usage

  • Recovered Files and Unknown Files virtual folders

  • Damaged Partition Table

• RAID disks

  • Common RAID failures

    • Controller failure

    • Disk failure

    • A guide on RAID 5 recovery with two missing drives

    • Spare disk

  • RAID Wizard

    • Standard mode

    • Constructor

• File Systems

  • VMFS

    • Files used by VMWare virtual machines

    • Mounting a snapshot

  • NFS

  • Bitlocker

• How to preview integrity of recovered *.VMDK files in demo version before purchase

• How to Select a VMFS Recovery License for Your Needs

  • Download older versions of VMFS Recovery

• Saving recovered data

  • Optimizing recovery time

  • Saving files to local drive

  • Mount to system

  • Export to FTP server

  • Thin provisioned disks and sparse files at VMFS datastores

Useful articles and Tutorials

• Glossary

• Frequently Asked Questions about VM data recovery and ESX error codes

• Recovering data from on-line VMware ESX and vSphere servers

• Free VMFS Reader tool for Windows, Linux, MacOs

• How to fix CID mismatch error. Editing virtual disk snapshot chain

• VMFS metadata files

• What's VMFS?

• VMDK disk types

• New update of VMFS Recovery™

• VMFS Recovery™: SFTP or SSH network connection error

• VMFS Recovery™: How to preview recovered *.VMDK files before purchase

• Mounting recovered VMDK files

• VMFS Recovery™: Recovering deleted *.VMDK file on the VMFS disk. ESX server data recovery

• New release of VMFS Recovery™ is comming

• Recovering datastores from NFS disks

• XFS support

• Data Recovery methods: advantages and drawbacks

• Unix DD utility on Windows

• RAID Z and ZFS support

• VMFS 6

• VMFS Recovery™ coupon discount (expired)

• VMFS Recovery™ coupon discount

• New release of VMFS Recovery™ 4.1.3

• New FAQ section about common issues with ESX Server

• VMFS Recovery™ issue detected

• Black Friday VMFS Recovery discount

• X-mas release

• A guide on RAID 5 recovery with two missing drives

• VMFS Recovery™ 4.4.2 released

• ESX error: Inaccessible virtual machines also known as Unknown VM issue

• Big update of VMFS Recovery™

• Anonymous usage statistics and bug reports in VMFS Recovery™

• How to recover missed VMDK descriptor file

• VMFS Recovery v.10.1.3: list of changes

• VMFS Recovery. Basics, methodology and possible approaches

• VMDK Recovery Tool

• Resolving VMware ESX Server Datastore Detection Issues After Power Outage

• Handling Corrupted VMDK Files

• VMFS Recovery fails to start, a **.dll is not found error and solution

• How VMFS Works: Inside VMware’s File System Architecture

• How to Recover data from VMware ESX/ESXi and vSphere servers

• Recovering data on Remote Virtual Machine using SSH

• VMware information recovery