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: A server fails, and you have a physical disk full of critical data, but no working ESXi host to read it.

# Create a raw disk image (if disk is failing, use ddrescue) sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/recovery/esxi_disk.img bs=4M status=progress vmfs-tools

sudo vmfs-fuse /dev/sdb2 /mnt/vmfs -o rw : A server fails, and you have a

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