Using non-raid disks in production environments is not recommended. Using RAID 5 and RAID 6 has many disadvantages, including low reliability. Note: RAID 1 and RAID 10 are the most reliable RAID options, but RAID 1 is the easiest to recover.

If you use RAID 10, RAID 0, or other array types, you need to use an identical RAID controller and install drivers on a Linux machine to detect the RAID volume with the attached disks. If you use separate SCSI or SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disks or RAID 1 as directly attached storage, you can attach disks to another machine that has a SAS controller installed without additional steps. Examples of hardware failures are a broken motherboard on an ESXi server or a damaged storage controller such as a RAID controller, among others. You can mount VMFS on Windows too, but this is limited to only VMFS 3, which is outdated and not used in modern vSphere environments. You may also need to mount a VMware VMFS file system on a Linux machine to copy VM data for recovery. You may need to be able to mount disks with VMFS datastores to another ESXi server during disaster recovery. If a hardware failure occurs, you have several options.

How to Mount the VMFS File System on Linux (Ubuntu)

Mounting VMFS Partitions on a New VMware ESXi host.

This blog post explains how to mount VMFS in different scenarios and the limitations of the different methods. VMFS is a file system created by VMware that doesn’t have native support in other operating systems (supported only on ESXi operating systems). Sometimes you may need to mount a VMFS datastore in Linux, Windows, or another ESXi host.

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