Vmfs Undelete Esxi 6 [patched] <90% WORKING>

Power off the host or unmount the affected datastore immediately.

| Scenario | Recoverable? | Reason | |----------|--------------|--------| | Deleted VM folder, then created new VM on same datastore | No | Overwrote FDs and blocks | | Deleted file on VMFS-6 + UNMAP enabled | Unlikely | UNMAP discards free blocks | | Deleted file, waited 1 week on active datastore | Rare | Blocks reallocated | | Deleted snapshot VMDK (delta disk) | Partial | Parent VMDK may still exist, child lost | vmfs undelete esxi 6

Every system administrator has that one story. You know the one. It’s 4:00 PM on a Friday, or perhaps the middle of a maintenance window, when a slip of the finger turns a critical command into a disaster. You meant to delete an old snapshot, or perhaps remove an unused disk file, but instead, you’ve wiped a production VM. Power off the host or unmount the affected