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undelete data from LUN?
Hi,
I have LUNs hooked to my blades to store VMware vSphere VMs on. I have deleted a VM from the datastore, which is a LUN from my CX-500. Is there a way to undelete this VM folder?.... please.
Thank you for any help you can send my way.
Ty
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March 24th, 2011 10:00
people do it all the time with NTFS partitions, there are forensic tools that can recover data from NTFS or FAT32. Maybe there is a commercial tool for VMFS ..not that i've heard of one.
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March 23rd, 2011 03:00
there is no "undelete" functionality in Clariion nor vSphere. If you had Clariion snapshots/clones for that LUN, you could have mounted that snapshot/clone LUN on another ESX box and recover just that specific VM.
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March 24th, 2011 10:00
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. Have you heard of someone linking a LUN with the deleted data to a server and viewing the LUN data somehow to run an undelete program on it? It is a datastore from vSphere, so it's not formatted NTFS, so it's not immediately readable by Windows. It's just seen as a big partition.
What do people use who can steal data from hard drives that aren't wiped several times?
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March 29th, 2011 10:00
I couldn't find one either for VMFS. I did find stuff about restoring from ESX3.5, but it says it's no longer supported in version 4. Thanks for your replies though.
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March 30th, 2011 11:00
EMC Support has a NDB (Non Destructive Bind) process that may be able to help depending on how long ago the lun was deleted and if the raid group didn't consume that space for a new lun. You would need to open an EMC service Request and request a Non Destructive Bind for a deleted lun. It may take some time to escalate to the proper resource.
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March 30th, 2011 11:00
The lun was deleted from a CX500. CLARiiON Support Could possible use the NDB option to bring the lun back to the CLARiiON.
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March 30th, 2011 11:00
how is that going to help with a VM that was deleted from VMFS file system ?
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March 30th, 2011 13:00
don't see anything in OP that the LUN was deleted.