Note the exact size of the -flat.vmdk file in bytes.
vmkfstools does not undelete files. However, if the VM was , re-register the VMX file. The VMDK may still exist. how to recover a deleted vmdk file from a datastore
If your underlying storage (SAN/NAS) has snapshot capabilities, you may not need file-level recovery at all. Note the exact size of the -flat
This article explores methods to recover deleted VMDK files from VMFS datastores. if the VM was