Virtual Machine Data Recovery Experts

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Because virtualized systems comprise a unique marriage of software and hardware components, the successful data recovery of inaccessible or lost data requires superior knowledge of hypervisors, host machines, storage devices, RAID arrays, file structures, applications, and more.

Ontrack's global team has years of experience and training, a host of proprietary tools, and specialized knowledge gained through unique working relationships with virtual machine software vendors and hardware OEMs that recommend our services. Ontrack virtual machine data recovery experts can help with following

• VMware ESX and vSAN (VMDK files),
• Microsoft Hyper-V (VHD, VHDX, and AVHDX files)
• Citrix Xen
• Oracle VM
• KVM

Our engineers can handle every VM data loss scenario in virtualized systems including:

• Failed disks or damaged RAIDs
• Formatted or overwritten hosts and VMs,
• Deleted VMs or snapshots,
• Deleted files from within a VM,
• Corrupt Datastores or host volumes (VMFS, NTFS, ReFS, EXT, XFS, etc),
• Deleted snapshots
  

Whether it's a single virtual machine or an entire virtualized environment on enterprise storage, we can handle it all.

Our recovery capabilities are nearly unlimited, whether it is software corruption, device failure, or accidental deletion. Through unique capabilities, years of experience, and hundreds of thousands of successful data recoveries have established Ontrack's reputation as the global leader in the data recovery industry.

Common causes of data loss on virtual machines.

There are many causes of data loss. Fortunately, Ontrack has expertise to recover data from the following situations and more.

Examples of what we can recover:

• Re-formatted VMware ‘Datastore’
• Corrupted virtual disk files (VMDK)
• Corrupt VMFS Datastore volumes
• Deleted virtual disk files (VMDK)
• Deleted snapshots
• Traditional RAID and hardware failures
• VMware vSphere
• vSAN
• Virtual Volumes (VVols)
• Fusion for Mac
• Workstation Pro
• Corrupted file systems

VM system data recovery recommendations.

For best results, Ontrack recommends you follow these guidelines to protect you from further data loss. These recommendations can help preserve your chances for successful data recovery with Ontrack.

• Never install data recovery software onto a volume if you require deleted data to be recovered. Installing software, creating, or copying files to the volume can permanently overwrite data in the free space of the volume and make it unrecoverable.
• If critical data is inaccessible due to accidental deletion, device failure, or corruption, take the volume offline and unmount it immediately.
• If you choose to attempt data recovery on your own, always work with a backup copy or image file of your data, volume, or VMDK file.
• Re-initializing or reformatting a problematic volume will remove all data and complicate data recovery attempts.
• Only rebuild a RAID array if all of its member drives have been completely imaged, or you have a fully functional and verified backup.
• Never attempt to force a failed RAID member drive online unless you have all member drives imaged.

Looking for more resources on our virtual machine data recovery capabilities? Access the Virtual Machine Recovery Knowledge Base.

View frequently asked questions, case studies, blogs and more!

Our data recovery process.

Contact our specialists for a free consultation immediately if you’ve experienced data loss on the virtualized system.

Time can be critical, and the odds for successful data recovery are higher when no previous attempts have been performed. Decades of experience confirm that this is critical for saving your valuable data.

Virtual Machine Data Recovery FAQs

Service levels and pricing.

Complex jobs are customized—including timelines, to meet our customers’ requirements. Estimates for evaluations and recovery can vary depending on customer urgency, device type, capacity, number of files, transfer speeds, and complexity of the data loss situation.

Join over a half million people and businesses who have trusted Ontrack to recover their data.

Start your data recovery now with a free consultation.

Contact our team of experts. Ontrack accommodates everyone – from the largest government or enterprise organization to an individual who may have lost their digital photos and everyone in between.