: A critical virtual machine was deleted from the datastore, and you need to "undelete" the blocks before they are overwritten.
| Scenario | Recommended Tool | |----------|------------------| | New datastore creation | vSphere Client / vmkfstools -C | | Datastore capacity increase | vmkfstools --growfs | | Migrating from VMFS-5 to VMFS-6 | esxcli storage vmfs upgrade | | Recover after partition table loss | vmkfstools -B | | Retrieve VMDK from corrupted datastore | R-Studio or UFS Explorer | | Space reclamation on thin LUNs | esxcli storage vmfs reclaim | vmfs tool
: A legacy utility from the VDDK libraries that can mount .vmdk files as drive letters on Windows or Linux. : A critical virtual machine was deleted from