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by lildisk
11 Mar 2024, 16:40
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Attempting to Recover an ESXi Disk; Possible?
Replies: 2
Views: 5058

Re: Attempting to Recover an ESXi Disk; Possible?

Thanks, recuperation! I think you and I are on the same wavelength about the next steps.
At this point, I am also just guessing, since in an enterprise production vSphere environment, we'd have blown away the ESXi host and redeployed from backups long before attempting a partition table recovery ...
by lildisk
11 Mar 2024, 05:11
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Attempting to Recover an ESXi Disk; Possible?
Replies: 2
Views: 5058

Attempting to Recover an ESXi Disk; Possible?

Some background info:

The failed disk is a 500 GB Samsung 860 EVO V-NAND SSD. (/dev/sda)
The disk contains both the vSphere ESXi OS and the VM files (*.vmdk, *.vmx, etc.) for 13 virtual machines.
I have successfully copied the contents (via dd) to a new 500 GB Samsung 870 EVO V-NAND SSD. (/dev ...