Fortunately, there are ways to recover a deleted VMDK file. Here are the steps to follow:
This is the "best case" scenario. The user clicked "Remove" in the VM settings but did not check "Delete from disk." deleted vmdk
Use these methods only if you have no backups and standard options have failed. Fortunately, there are ways to recover a deleted VMDK file
This tool can scan datastores for missing or corrupted VMDK files and reconstruct them, allowing you to copy them back to the ESXi host. This tool can scan datastores for missing or
He looks back at the datastore browser. In his exhaustion, he’d been in the wrong folder. He hadn’t deleted the old dev disk. He’d deleted the production CRM’s primary .vmdk file while the VM was still running.
VMware provides a few built-in features that can help you recover a deleted VMDK file: