At 6:47 AM, the ERP came online. The finance team’s weekend batch jobs ran at 7:00 AM as if nothing had happened.
But Maria knew: rolling back would mean losing 467 days of transaction logs. The company would miss quarterly filings. restore vmware from delta vmdk
Here’s an interesting story about a VMware restoration from a delta VMDK, blending real-world system administration tension with a touch of the unexpected. The Ghost in the Delta At 6:47 AM, the ERP came online
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. The company would miss quarterly filings
Now, the 100GB base VMDK had spawned 14 delta VMDKs, the deepest of which was 2.3 TB. And the VM wouldn’t power on. Error: Disk chain link broken.
Maria’s manager whispered over the bridge line: “Just roll back to the snapshot. We lose a day, fine.”
vmkfstools -i "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/FinServe-07/FinServe-07-000014.vmdk" \ "/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/FinServe-07-Restored.vmdk" -d thin The ETA: 11 hours.