Esxi Repair Corrupt Vmdk

Understanding the type helps choose the right repair method.

This attempts to "repair" ( -r ) the source disk into a new thin-provisioned destination disk. If this succeeds, you can attach the new destination.vmdk to your VM and power it on. esxi repair corrupt vmdk

# Clone the current state from snapshot chain vmkfstools -i corruptVM-000001.vmdk -d thin recovered.vmdk Understanding the type helps choose the right repair method

vmkfstools -i corruptVM-000001.vmdk -d thin -a lsilogic consolidated.vmdk esxi repair corrupt vmdk

: "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" when trying to attach the disk to another VM.