Restore Deleted Vmdk From Datastore 【Top 20 CONFIRMED】

: As soon as you realize a VMDK has been deleted, stop all operations on the affected datastore to minimize the chance of overwriting data.

Typical workflow :

esxcli storage vmfs undelete recover -d [datastore_name] -f "[datastore] path/to/deleted.vmdk" restore deleted vmdk from datastore