ESXI 5.5
HP DL 380 G5
Hello everyone
We made an Backup from an VM with the Vsphere Browser ( Download Folder)
Unfrounately in the Backed Up Folder there is no Flat File.
I tried to Mount the vmdk's but it seems that the Partions in the vmdk are Lost. ( i've use OFS-Mount)
So .. 2 Questions:
if not ...
best regards fireskyer
The Basic file type used by VMDK files are SPARSE and FLAT as a Virtual Machine Hard Disk file while creating a VMDK file. But if you have corrupt VMDK file and don't now the file type, No worries you can restore VMDK without the FLAT file. Use the [Moderator edit: Removed spam link] which helps you in recovering your maximum possible data. Select the VMDK descriptor file from your system directory, before the scanning process.
I hope this would be helpful.
Regards.
> Could i restore an vmdk (chain) without an Flat File ?
It depends. You can not restore a vmdk if the flat.vmdk is lost and you have no snapshots. It is sometimes possible to restore a vmdk if you have snapshots that arer very old and very large - so that the priginal data in the basedisk has been overwritten ny the new data inside the snapshots.
> Could i mount an vmdk File with lost partitions in it ?
Sometimes the partitiontable gets lost and can be recreated with a tool named Testdisk.
This is only possible if the flat.vmdk is available.
> No worries you can restore VMDK without the FLAT file. Use the [Moderator edit: Removed spam link] which helps you in recovering your maximum possible data.
The tool you are advertising may be useful for the Workstation platform. It is not able to help for ESXi.