Test environment: 4 TB VMFS6 volume, 40 VMs, 5% metadata corruption.
| Limitation | Explanation | |------------|-------------| | No in-place repair | The tool is read-only; it does not fix the original VMFS volume. | | VMFS6 thin provisioning | Recovery of thin-provisioned VMDK blocks requires mapping of SEsparse (Snapshot) – not always fully recovered. | | Encrypted VMFS | Does not support self-encrypting drives (SED) or VMFS encryption (vSphere 6.7+). | | File names lost in Full Analysis | Recovered files are renamed to file_xxxxx.vmdk – manual identification needed. | | Large VMDK fragmentation | Severe fragmentation without metadata may result in incomplete or corrupted VMDK assembly. | | Cost | Licensed version required for actual data export (trial shows preview only). |
Test environment: 4 TB VMFS6 volume, 40 VMs, 5% metadata corruption.
| Limitation | Explanation | |------------|-------------| | No in-place repair | The tool is read-only; it does not fix the original VMFS volume. | | VMFS6 thin provisioning | Recovery of thin-provisioned VMDK blocks requires mapping of SEsparse (Snapshot) – not always fully recovered. | | Encrypted VMFS | Does not support self-encrypting drives (SED) or VMFS encryption (vSphere 6.7+). | | File names lost in Full Analysis | Recovered files are renamed to file_xxxxx.vmdk – manual identification needed. | | Large VMDK fragmentation | Severe fragmentation without metadata may result in incomplete or corrupted VMDK assembly. | | Cost | Licensed version required for actual data export (trial shows preview only). | diskinternals vmfs recovery full