Recover Deleted Vmdk From Datastore Today _top_ 【2026 Update】

ls -la /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VMname/*-delta.vmdk If snapshots exist, clone from the snapshot or use vmkfstools -i to convert delta to a new VMDK.

# SSH to ESXi host lsof | grep -i "deleted.*vmdk" If found, copy the file descriptor: