Virtual Machine Data Recovery Services
Professional virtual machine data recovery for VMware and mixed hypervisor estates, built to reduce downtime and protect business continuity.
- VMware FocusedvSphere, ESXi, VMFS specialists
- Chain of CustodyEvidence-grade handling
- RTO-DrivenAligned to your targets
What Virtual Machine Data Recovery Services Include
Virtual machine data recovery is a specialist service that gets VMware and other virtual workloads back online when storage, snapshots, or virtual disks fail.
VMware focused recovery
We recover VMs from vSphere, vCenter, ESXi datastores, VMFS volumes, vSAN, and VVols, including complex snapshot chain and snapshot consolidation issues.
Granular VM level recovery
We extract files, folders, databases, and full VM images from VMDK, VMX, VHD, and VHDX, even when guests won't boot.
Ransomware ready recovery
We help you recover from ransomware by rebuilding clean restore points, validating data integrity, and supporting immutable backup workflows and segregated recovery environments.
Enterprise storage support
We reconstruct RAID arrays and handle SAN and NAS failures, including iSCSI, NFS datastores, LUN mapping issues, and degraded storage policies.
RTO and RPO driven outcomes
We align virtual machine data recovery to your RTO and RPO, so your teams can restart critical services fast.
Talk to a virtualisation recovery engineer
If you've lost access to critical VMs or datastores, our engineers are available 24/7 to review your situation and advise on next steps.
When Virtual Machine Recovery Requires Professional or Lab-Based Intervention
Virtual machine data recovery is what R3 Data Recovery delivers with a security led, engineer driven approach for business critical virtualised systems.
You get direct access to qualified recovery specialists who work daily with VMware data recovery cases, including corrupt VMFS metadata, damaged VMDK descriptor files, orphaned snapshots, and failed snapshot chain merges. We don't guess. We triage, isolate, and verify each recovery path before we write anything back to your source media.
R3 Data Recovery protects workloads by keeping evidence quality images, maintaining read only handling where possible, and logging every action taken during recovery. You can choose in lab, remote, or onsite virtual machine data recovery based on your incident severity and operational constraints.
We aim to eliminate complexity for your IT and security teams. We can orchestrate recovery outputs that fit your environment, including restored virtual disks, rebuilt VMs ready for import, or file level exports for application owners. You also get clear scope, an agreed plan, and controlled access to recovered data.
VM Symptoms That Mean You Should Stop Using Standard Recovery Operations
Virtual machine data recovery is often required when VM failures start to spread across hosts, datastores, or backup chains.
VMs won't power on in VMware
You see errors tied to VMX, VMDK, or diskUUID, failed checkpoint handling, or invalid descriptor file references. We repair structures, rebuild descriptors, and recover VMs into a mountable and bootable state.
Datastore corruption on VMFS
Hosts lose visibility of volumes, partitions show as unreadable, or VMFS metadata turns inconsistent after a crash or controller fault. We image affected LUNs, parse filesystem metadata, and reconstruct VM layouts for safe extraction.
Snapshot chain problems
Snapshot consolidation fails, delta disk chains grow, performance drops, or you find orphaned snapshot and delta file fragments. We map snapshot metadata, reassemble chain order, and recover point in time states where possible.
vSAN and storage policy incidents
Objects go absent, components degrade, or resync stalls after node loss. We identify object placement, extract recoverable shards, and return coherent VM data that matches your incident window.
Backup restore won't complete
Restore jobs fail, backup sets show CRC errors, retention gaps appear, or ransomware encrypts repositories. We validate restore points, recover from damaged backup images when feasible, and stage outputs for clean rebuilds.
How VM Data Recovery Works: From Diagnosis to Final Verification
Virtual machine data recovery is delivered through a controlled process that protects your data, preserves options, and reduces downtime.
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Triage and scoping
We collect symptoms, platform details, and timelines across vSphere, vCenter, storage arrays, and backup architecture. We confirm RTO and RPO targets.
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Isolate and protect
We guide you to freeze risky activity, pause replication, and prevent overwrite on datastores and backup repositories. We help you capture logs and inventory safely.
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Image and integrity check
We create forensic grade images of disks, LUNs, RAID members, or virtual disk files. We hash and verify copies so you retain an auditable chain of custody.
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Reconstruct and recover
We rebuild RAID, repair filesystem structures, parse VMFS metadata, reassemble snapshot chains, and extract VMDK or VHD data into recoverable outputs.
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Validate and return
We mount recovered data in a controlled environment, run consistency checks, and return exports suited to your rebuild plan, including full VM images or file level restores.
Hypervisor Platforms, Storage Systems, and Backup Solutions We Can Recover
Virtual machine data recovery is strongest when engineers work fluently across hypervisors, storage, and backup ecosystems.
We regularly handle recovery cases that touch these platforms and vendors:
- VMware (vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, VMware Cloud)
- Microsoft (Hyper V)
- Citrix (XenServer)
- Red Hat (KVM and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation estates)
- Oracle (Oracle VM and VirtualBox)
- Nutanix (AHV environments and mixed clusters)
Supporting Infrastructure & Backup
- Dell EMC (PowerEdge hosts and storage platforms)
- HPE (server and storage arrays)
- NetApp (NFS datastores and SAN back ends)
- Veeam (backup repositories and restore job failures)
We keep access controlled, handle data securely, and return recovered outputs on encrypted media or via agreed secure transfer routes.
Virtual Machine Recovery Questions About Risk, Timing, and Data Safety
Virtual machine data recovery is a practical option when standard restores fail or when you need deeper repair of virtual disk and datastore structures.
What is virtual machine data recovery?
When should I stop using the affected VM or datastore?
Can you recover VMware VMs after snapshot consolidation failures?
Does virtual machine data recovery help after ransomware?
How do you return recovered VM data?
Ready to recover your virtual machines?
Our VMware recovery engineers are available 24/7 to assess your situation and provide a clear recovery plan.