CedricAnto
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

AFAIK., I believe you can go as far as using hexdump to look at raw hex data associated to LBAs & perhaps take a back up using dd. But only vmfs driver can enumerate the contents/translate those into readable file.

There are certain vmkfstools options to understand disk layout/geometry

There is also a utility called VOMA from vSphere 5.1, if incase you are looking to check integrity of a VMFS volume

If I may, Can I understand the requirement , I may be able to provide more insight or directives.

Cedric http://in.linkedin.com/in/cedricrajendran/ http://virtualknightz.com/
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