| | Recommended Software | | --- | --- | | Entire VMFS datastore won’t mount | DiskInternals VMFS Recovery | | RAID corruption + VMDK loss | UFS Explorer Professional | | Need to recover without Windows PC | R-Studio for Linux | | Non-technical user or small team | Stellar Data Recovery for VM | | Corrupted snapshot chain | SysTools VMDK Recovery |

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