I was searching for information about the new experimental tool for ESX 3.5 VMDK Recovery Tool and I found a great knowledgebase article at VMware. VMDK Recovery Tool is a tool to recover VMDK files if they become deleted, or if the VMFS datastore gets deleted or corrupted. There are some limitations to the tool:

• The tool is experimental. Experimental means that the tool is not supported and might not work as expected in all customer environments.
• The tool is not available for ESXi.
• You cannot restore from multiple block list files.

Unfortunately, currently at home I only have ESXi running and I have no customer running U3 already. Anyone who tried VMDK Recovery Tool yet?

Related articles

• February 2, 2009 -- ESX (whitebox) local storage perfomance tip
• July 23, 2009 -- Why vCenter server should be free
• June 23, 2009 -- HOWTO manage HP P400 RAID controller in a vSphere whitebox
• February 17, 2009 -- Veeam Backup 3.0: faster backup than with VCB?
• January 12, 2009 -- Run esxtop on ESXi from VIMA
• December 10, 2008 -- Difference between free ESXi and licensed ESXi
• October 16, 2008 -- Always usefull : concrete comparison between ESX3 and ESX3i
• July 23, 2008 -- As expected: VMware ESXi is free!
• March 11, 2010 -- VMware View upcoming features
• February 18, 2010 -- NetApp Rapid Cloning Utility 3.0 now available!

Tags: ESX 3.5, esxi, VMDK recovery tool, VMware