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The most critical step in data recovery is preventing . When ESXi deletes a VMDK, it marks the space on the VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) datastore as "available." If the host writes new data to that datastore, it may physically overwrite your deleted VMDK, making recovery impossible. Shut down any VMs running on that specific datastore. Avoid migrating (vMotion) new VMs to the affected storage. how to recover deleted vmdk esxi

Navigate to the VM directory: cd /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE_NAME/VM_NAME/ A powerful tool that can mount the VMFS