ESX 3.5 File System?

[brsolutions]

Hi... earlier this week, I had a RAID failure, and my entire host machine went down. I am currently working with a data recovery facility to get my VMDKs off of the disks. I am not a VMWare expert, and the recovery folks have asked me what file system type ESX 3.5 uses. They mentioned XFS... is this correct, or is it something else? Thanks for your help!

[vmkarthik]

ESX based on VMFS file system

to be precise its VMFS3

[brsolutions]

Thanks for the quick reply... do I need to worry about anything like 'ext3'.. or is that part of VMFS?

[vmkarthik · Accepted solution]

Hope you are trying to recover the Datastore which has the vmdk's right?/

the datastore are VMFS3 format and the ESX Hypervisor OS uses ext3 file system as the hypervisor is linux based OS.

[brsolutions]

You are correct - we are really only focused on recovering the datastore where the VMDKs are.

This was a standard, default installation, so I will let the data guys know of the VMFS3 format and ext3 file system.

Thanks for your assistance.

[vmkarthik]

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