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my office have a broken esxi server that suddenly doesn't want to boot up. I am suspecting it is caused by motherboard.

I am trying to access the server's Hard drive to get some VM files inside the hard drive.

I tested to browse the hard drive using an external hdd enclosure 2.5 and some software listed here : https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/browse-linux-partition-windows/ to access it from windows 10. But I cannot browse / open the hard drive.

Is it possible to access the hard drive (read) and copy some files out? How can I do it?

jr_jr
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ESXi uses it's own filesystem, VMFS. As far as I know it's not possible to mount this under Windows. You can however mount it unter linux (read only) using the vmfs-tools package, which is available on the major distributions.

Gerald Schneider
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  • Thank you for your answer! I will try mount it using `vmfs-tools` under linux then. I will try to follow this article http://woshub.com/how-to-access-vmfs-datastore-from-linux-windows/ and post the result! – jr_jr Feb 12 '19 at 01:43