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LostDataSa

Post subject: VM inside VMFS

Posted: January 10th, 2019, 7:03

Joined: December 23rd, 2013, 9:56
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Location: Saudi Arabia

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?

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Yustik

Post subject: Re: VM inside VMFS

Posted: January 10th, 2019, 9:02

Joined: October 10th, 2011, 15:28
Posts: 26
Location: Russian Federation

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

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LostDataSa

Post subject: Re: VM inside VMFS

Posted: January 10th, 2019, 9:34

Joined: December 23rd, 2013, 9:56
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Location: Saudi Arabia

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.

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Yustik

Post subject: Re: VM inside VMFS

Posted: January 10th, 2019, 10:07

Joined: October 10th, 2011, 15:28
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Location: Russian Federation

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?

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LostDataSa

Post subject: Re: VM inside VMFS

Posted: January 10th, 2019, 12:51

Joined: December 23rd, 2013, 9:56
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Location: Saudi Arabia

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.

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lcoughey

Post subject: Re: VM inside VMFS

Posted: January 10th, 2019, 14:07

Joined: February 9th, 2009, 16:13
Posts: 2573
Location: Ontario, Canada

Perhaps you didn't reconstruct the RAID correctly?

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DR-Kiev

Post subject: Re: VM inside VMFS

Posted: January 13th, 2019, 8:39

Joined: March 7th, 2009, 12:43
Posts: 1091
Location: Angel Data Recovery

lcoughey wrote:

Perhaps you didn't reconstruct the RAID correctly?

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

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Iurii

Post subject: Re: VM inside VMFS

Posted: January 27th, 2019, 4:34

Joined: December 10th, 2018, 11:56
Posts: 168
Location: Ukraine

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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