VMFS data recovery is possible even on a remote computer: VMFS Recovery™ retrieves data online over a network. VMFS disks can be recovered on damaged, corrupted and inaccessible physical hard drives and RAID arrays, including corrupted RAIDs and broken arrays with or without the original RAID controller installed. Then, necessary VMDK images are extracted and the usual data recovery process is launched. First, VMFS Recovery™ scan ESX/ESXi storage to gain access to VMDK images. Recovering VMDK images on ESXi/ESX Server is a two-step process. VMFS Recovery™ is VMDK recovery software, that can provide access to healthy and corrupted virtual disk images used by VMware vSphere, ESX/ESXi Server. Bad blocks and physical corruption of hard drives storing the virtual disk images can also cause corruption of VMware VMDK images.
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Like any other storage media, VMware disks can get damaged by software and hardware faults.
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