For large environments, manual key generation is inefficient. You can retrieve and backup keys via PowerCLI.
VMware’s Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) is a high-performance clustered file system. Because standard operating systems like Windows or Linux cannot natively read VMFS volumes, traditional recovery tools are ineffective. Professional-grade software is typically required to: How to check VMFS for metadata corruption - DiskInternals vmfs recovery key
High cost; some users report a "paywall" for full recovery after free scans. Deleted File Recovery For large environments, manual key generation is inefficient
If the KMS is offline, the host cannot retrieve the KEK to unwrap the datastore key. However, if you have the , you can bypass the KMS requirement temporarily. For large environments