Businesses throughout the United States rely on VMware virtualization products for day-to-day business operations. Despite the rise of cloud computing, VMware has remained a very popular solution used by small, medium, and large enterprise organizations. The core VMware products are…
Whether you’re dealing with accidentally-deleted files, deleted or corrupted LUNs, or issues with an unresponsive NAS server or virtual machine setup, it can be a challenge to recover data on an Ext4 file system, even when there are plenty of…
What Is ZFS? ZFS is an open-source file system designed by Sun Microsystems. The ZFS filesystem takes on a lot of responsibility—more so than most file systems. Among ZFS’s bag of tricks are advanced journaling and self-healing features designed to…
The client in this case had been storing Oracle VDI files on their computer’s internal Western Digital hard drive. A VDI file, or “virtual disk image”, contains the contents of an entire “virtual” hard drive inside a single large file.…
There are few things in this world more frustrating than to be caught in an endless reboot cycle. But while these cycles usually don’t indicate a hard drive failure and can be fixed, sometimes it’s just because your hard drive…
The client in this RAID-10 recovery case study came to us after their Dell RAID-10 server had crashed. After restarting the Dell PowerEdge server, the RAID controller reported that the virtual disk had failed. Two drives in the array were…
In this VHDX recovery case study, the client had several Hyper-V virtual machines stored in the VHDX format on their three-drive RAID-5 server. The RAID-5 server was comprised of two 600 GB Western Digital SAS hard drives and one HP…
In this data recovery case study, the client had a failed RAID-5 array in their server. The array consisted of four enterprise-grade Seagate Constellation hard drives inside it, providing 12 terabytes of storage space. While the client could still mount…
In this Dell PowerVault recovery case, the client came to us after their Hyper-V host machine had failed. The client’s IT technicians attempted a hard reboot of the server containing their Hyper-V datastores in an attempt to fix the problem.…
