Recover Corrupt Vmdk -

vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s 40GB -a lsilogic -t 0 mydisk.vmdk To clone a corrupt VMDK (skipping bad blocks):

vmware-vdiskmanager -R <your-disk>.vmdk To check and repair: recover corrupt vmdk

vmware-vdiskmanager -r source.vmdk -t 0 recovered.vmdk If the corruption is at the VMFS datastore level: vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s 40GB -a lsilogic -t 0 mydisk