However, virtual machines residing on ESXi servers use a slightly different format of vmdk virtual disks – a virtual disk descriptor and virtual disk extent that contains raw data of the virtual disk are two separate files on the ESXi datastore. vmdk extension of files and is used by VMware and VirtualBox virtual machines. VMDK is a virtual machine disk file format, which is the open format developed by VMware.
If a VMDK file is encrypted or corrupted, another technique must be applied. Today’s blog post covers the methods that can be used if a VMDK virtual disk is not encrypted or corrupted. There are a number of methods that allow you to access the content of VMDK virtual disk files. This situation can happen after the unsuccessful installation of some applications, updates for an operating system, malware attacks, accidental file deletion, etc. Sometimes a VM cannot be started, however you may need to access the data stored on a virtual disk used by a VM.
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