She used vmkfstools -D to inspect each delta. The deepest child ( FinServe-07-000014.vmdk ) had a valid descriptor but the parent CID didn’t match any actual parent. A typical "broken chain" from a storage migration gone wrong months ago.
But Maria knew: rolling back would mean losing 467 days of transaction logs. The company would miss quarterly filings. restore vmware from delta vmdk
At 3:30 AM, the clone stalled at 42%. She checked the storage logs—silent corruption in delta 09. The block containing a purchase order table’s metadata was unreadable. She used vmkfstools -D to inspect each delta
vmkfstools -i "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/FinServe-07/FinServe-07-000014.vmdk" \ "/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/FinServe-07-Restored.vmdk" -d thin The ETA: 11 hours. restore vmware from delta vmdk