Modern environments typically use VMFS5 or VMFS6 , with VMFS6 supporting larger capacities (up to 64 TB) and more than 100 million files per drive. Common Causes of VMFS Data Loss
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VMFS is a high-performance, clustered file system designed by VMware specifically for storing virtual machine disk images. Unlike standard file systems (like NTFS or APFS), VMFS allows multiple ESXi hosts to read and write to the same storage simultaneously. Modern environments typically use VMFS5 or VMFS6 ,