After scouring countless sites and articles, only thing that could fully read the drives was UFS Explorer. $700 later and many, many crashes, we are starting to have a reliable process of recovering the data. We have to use UFS Explorer and recover as raw disk images. Then attach those raw images to new VMs manually. Then do a Windows recover to each one.

@oksana said in The Truth Behind ZFS Benefits and Drawbacks:

This time, we tell the truth about ZFS pros and cons. We also cover why ZFS was never adopted by such industry-standard hypervisors as Hyper-V and vSphere

Because it isn't a clustered filesystem so didn't apply 🙂 That's an easy one to answer. Also, they couldn't license it.

@DustinB3403
I don't doubt it.
There wasn't really any added complexity though. PVE was installed with all the defaults.