> I've never had someone on these forums ask me to call them.
Yes - as far as I know I am the only one that does that.
But I am also the only one that will look into VMFS-corruption issues at all.
But if you search this forum for a few minutes you will find that questions like yours in most of the cases can not be solved with a quick exchange of questions and answers.
Usually I ask for a dump of the Metadata of a VMFS-volume and then I spend about 2 -3 hours on analysing the metadata and eventually come up with some scripts to extract your lost data.
In about 50 % of the cases I also need a remote session to do the critical steps myself.
> Are you charging for your services?
I am an idiot and only ask for donations - thats why I had to add the second line to my signature.
And by the way - you will not find a single case where a forum user that I invited to call me had any reasons to complain later ...
Hope that answers your question.
Ulli