Recovery Broken Vmdk Image

Disk images for virtual machines in VMWare products are stored in 2 files: disk description and data. In filesystem virtual machine partition stored as 2 files: disk file image: linux-flat.vmdk disk file config: linux.vmdk So in situation when you accidentally removed linux.vmdk (when you’re connected with SSH) or it’s broken, you can restore your disk drive image and mount it to another virtual machine. To restore image you should do next steps (example is for ESXi installation as the most common for me)....

May 9, 2018 · 3 min · Dmytro Prokhorenkov