VMware Data Recovery

VMware® virtualisation software enables organisations to consolidate operating systems and increase hardware productivity. The software offers significant benefits and cost savings to a rapidly growing list of users. Despite advances in server hardware consolidation, CPU processing distribution and the virtualisation of storage devices, data loss is still a reality. Often, data loss with these types of systems is particularly destructive because of consolidation of data on a single system.

We have pioneered the world’s first and most comprehensive VMware data recovery solution. Our engineers are uniquely positioned to help you recover data from VMware virtual disk drives. We have used our specialised recovery tools and patented Remote Data Recovery process to recover thousands of VMware virtual machines from various configurations in locations around the world.

What we do

Our two-step data recovery process allows you to view a list of recoverable VMs and files before you decide to proceed with a recovery. VMware data loss can be evaluated and a recovery initiated in a matter of hours via our in-lab, onsite or Remote Data Recovery (RDR) services.

Ontrack Data Recovery services can recover virtual data from the following situations:

• Corrupted or re-formatted VMware vStorage.
• Corrupt VMFS volumes.
• Corrupted VMDKs.
• Deleted VMDKs.
• RAID or other hardware failures.
• Accidental data deletion.

… and from the following VMware systems:

• VMware ESX 4.0 and VMware ESXi 4.0
• VMware ESX 3.x and VMware ESXi 3.5
• VMware ESX 2.x
• VMware Server (formerly GSX).
• VMware Workstation (all versions).

Using Microsoft Hyper-V systems? Read more about our specialised Hyper-V Data Recovery Services.

Common causes of virtual data loss
• VMware vStorage VMFS volume corruption.
• Deleted VMware vStorage VMFS volumes.
• Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) corruption.
• Traditional RAID and hardware failures.
• Deleted or corrupt files contained within virtualised storage systems

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