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Have a snapshot horror story or a recovery trick that saved your week? Share it in the comments below. About the author: [Your Name] has spent [X] years managing VMware environments ranging from SMBs to multi-petabyte VDI clusters. This advice is based on real incident post-mortems, not theory.

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Published: April 14, 2026 | Reading time: 8 minutes vmdk snapshot recovery

vmkfstools -i "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/your-vm/your-vm-000002-delta.vmdk" -d thin "/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/recovered.vmdk" This clones the current state into a fresh, flat VMDK. Attach it as a new disk to a temporary VM to extract data. If descriptor files are missing or the parent-child relationship is lost, you need vmdk-fuse or the VMware Disk Development Kit. Have a snapshot horror story or a recovery