Recovering of data from the virtual environment
Our previous blogs have discussed the cause of data loss from virtual system like
- Hardware problems
- Corruption in metadata
- Formatting
- Human errors etc.
The loss of data by any business can lead to a huge trouble and stress so a reputed data recovery company must be contacted for such cases.
What could an organization do in case of lost virtual data? The answer to that is there are simple easy ways to get back to their assets as soon as possible.
Level of storage
In many cases the data can be retrieved quickly from drive by clicking the image of drive & reading the raw data there in the disk.
LUNs / RAID
LUNs(logical vilumes) / RAIDs are another options available for recovering the data. With raid, if available, makes an easy tracking of the spread of data over the disk. Discovering the configuration, technicians can recreate virtual array to gain access over the storage. But if the raids are corrupted then raids need to be emulated to recreate the missing data.
HOST file system
This is another intense level for data recovery where data is not found in the storage directly. Here the data is recovered through the use of tools used by technicians for tracing them, mapping to the host and recompiling it.
Some more tools are used if this first tool fails, leading to its entrance for guest file system level. Here, experts investigate for the data to recover it.
Storage architecture
Technicians with good experience who knows and understands the different levels and its availabilities, can find out the lost data from the different levels to initiate recovery. It might be time taking or super challenging quiet often. But the righteous technician of the recovery company having accurate tool, partnership with storage vendor can make recovery successful.
Virtual machine data-recovery by Rescueit
With 10+ years of over the globe experience in management of data, recovery of data, data erase etc. Rescueit has retrieved virtualized data for many organizations.
The engineers usually look for the file, ascertain configuration, recreate arrays and lastly tries to acquire access to storage. Rescueit has developed a tool which is a combination of all these activities. It has also developed many more tools as such for prevention of loss of data in volumes & solves complicacy. It makes sure to keep its technologies update, has wide knowledge about the systems, storage, operations.
It gives value service for recovery of data, backups, management of data etc.
Few examples:
Loss of data due to VMware formatting.
IT department of Singapore company wrongly taken out a VMFS from the data storage, LUN from the host and pasted it in the server that resulted in reformat of lun, this led to the corruption of VMFS frontend metadata resulting in virtual machine loss from data storage. They called Rescueit for recovery services. It got them back all the structures of VMFS, gained VMs restore, while other required additional tool services.
Successful Removal of VMs
Mistakenly a healthcare provider while doing his service, deleted 8 VMs from data strorage of the production. On realizing the sensitivity of the data they immediately rang Rescueit & requested to visit them directly. The team successfully solved the issue and got them back all their lost VMs in spite of apparent damages.
Some more repairs were carried out through guest file system of particular VMs with Rescueit’s proprietary tool in order to recover the internal critical data successfully.
Conclusion:
Virtualization refers to the creation of virtual version of something, like virtual platforms for computer hardware, storage devices, resources for computer network. It removes complications, time-saving for the users and many more. Its emergence has also witnessed many corruptions, ransomware, failure of raids, hardware failure, corruption of data, virtual backup, volumes in today’s data.
Data loss is quiet common with the virtualized system now days. Therefore backup is required to protect the business, but still it does not suffice. So the world’s most leading recovery supplier Rescueit always stand by you to make the recovery possible even in the most complexity situation. Its data recovering services can help in:
Recovering of any kind of data from any storage such as- hard-drive, SSD drive, SAN, NAS, tapes.
Minimizing the downtime by immediate services, fast turn around time, global quality of remote recovery services with advanced technologies.
Reporting all the retrievable files, its condition so as to analyze whether its good to go for the services.
