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Author:  LostDataSa [ January 10th, 2019, 7:03 ]
Post subject:  VM inside VMFS
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?
Author:  Yustik [ January 10th, 2019, 9:02 ]
Post subject:  Re: VM inside VMFS
if you can see data inside VM, what is your question? what is problem?
Author:  LostDataSa [ January 10th, 2019, 9:34 ]
Post subject:  Re: VM inside VMFS
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.
Author:  Yustik [ January 10th, 2019, 10:07 ]
Post subject:  Re: VM inside VMFS
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?
Author:  LostDataSa [ January 10th, 2019, 12:51 ]
Post subject:  Re: VM inside VMFS
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.
Author:  lcoughey [ January 10th, 2019, 14:07 ]
Post subject:  Re: VM inside VMFS
Perhaps you didn't reconstruct the RAID correctly?
Author:  DR-Kiev [ January 13th, 2019, 8:39 ]
Post subject:  Re: VM inside VMFS
lcoughey wrote:
Perhaps you didn't reconstruct the RAID correctly?

+1
Or, he did use degraded disk in his construction.
Author:  Iurii [ January 27th, 2019, 4:34 ]
Post subject:  Re: VM inside VMFS
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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