VMware^® Data Recovery

VMware® continue to be the forefront provider of virtual technologies and platforms. VMware platforms offer organisations cost-effective virtual solutions that help to deliver improved efficiency by allowing hardware-independence of operating system and applications.

Despite the improved server hardware consolidation, CPU processing distribution, and the virtualisation of storage devices, compromised data is still a risk within any virtualised infrastructure. Virtual systems can often become more unstable given the increased abstraction of valuable proprietary data on one system.

“Companies use virtualisation to store data from multiple servers on a single storage device, effectively placing all their eggs in one basket … If the worst happens and data loss occurs attempting to fix the problem yourself could render the data unrecoverable -the best advice is to call a specialist.” - The Ontrack Data Recovery Virtualisation Team

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

Solid Solutions for Virtual Data Recovery

With our unrivalled expertise in data recovery we have pioneered the world’s first and most comprehensive VMware data recovery solution.

With our Ontrack Data Recovery engineers and their unparalleled expertise, your VMware data loss can be evaluated and a recovery initiated in a matter of hours via our in-lab, onsite or exclusive Ontrack® Remote Data Recovery™ 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).

If you are using Microsoft Hyper-V^TMsystems read more about our Hyper-V Data Recovery Services