Extracting VMFS file descriptor for VMFS and VMFSSPARSE

[litok]

Is there a way to extract VMFS file descriptor of VMDK type: vmfs and vmfssparse?

I'm looking for the linux version (not windows .exe format).

I got the perl program from oreeh in the forum, but it requires monolithic.

Thanks.

[oreeh]

You don't need any program to extract them.

The only disk format with an embedded descriptor is the monolithicSparse format.

The descriptor for VMDKs with a createtype of vmfs is in the separate descriptor file.

This is the short VMDK (without the -flat part in the filename).

[litok]

Oreeh, just the man I need!

Say if you loose the vmdk descriptor file and only have the vmdk disk file (with type vmfs or vmfsSparse), then what you do? Does it mean "game over"?

[oreeh]

You are not lost.

Either create the descriptor from the latest log (if you have one) or create a new disk of the same size (use vmkfstools) and use the descriptor from that disk (after the required modifications).

[litok]

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[oreeh]

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And that means?