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VM inside VMFS

January 10th, 2019, 7:03

I got a SAN from a client, it was RAID 5. just finished rebuilding the raid and creating a single img.
now I can see the volumes are VMFS and inside it VM and the user data inside VM.

How can I access the user data inside the VM?

Re: VM inside VMFS

January 10th, 2019, 9:02

if you can see data inside VM, what is your question? what is problem?

Re: VM inside VMFS

January 10th, 2019, 9:34

Yustik wrote:if you can see data inside VM, what is your question? what is problem?

UFS only see VMFS volume and cannot open its files and the client needs the data inside the VM which is inside the VMFS Volume.

Re: VM inside VMFS

January 10th, 2019, 10:07

LostDataSa wrote:
Yustik wrote:if you can see data inside VM, what is your question? what is problem?

UFS only see VMFS volume and cannot open its files and the client needs the data inside the VM which is inside the VMFS Volume.

UFS can open this files (right-click), which version you use?

Re: VM inside VMFS

January 10th, 2019, 12:51

Yustik wrote:[UFS can open this files (right-click), which version you use?


UFS 5.2, when opening the volume it just many inode files named ino001, ino002 ...
after reading about found VMFS store blocks as jbod inside the volume.

Re: VM inside VMFS

January 10th, 2019, 14:07

Perhaps you didn't reconstruct the RAID correctly?

Re: VM inside VMFS

January 13th, 2019, 8:39

lcoughey wrote:Perhaps you didn't reconstruct the RAID correctly?

+1
Or, he did use degraded disk in his construction.

Re: VM inside VMFS

January 27th, 2019, 4:34

LostDataSa wrote:
Yustik wrote:if you can see data inside VM, what is your question? what is problem?

UFS only see VMFS volume and cannot open its files and the client needs the data inside the VM which is inside the VMFS Volume.


UFS Explorer: Open VMFS partition. Select VM file (right click) and select "Open file as disk image".
Better look video guide here: https://youtu.be/Jm0az1TA814
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