Mounting Disk of One VM to Another VM

 I ran into a Problem where one of VM crashed & hence unable to boot it. I had important data in one of the disk attached to the VM.

To recover data, we can mount the disk to some other VM & then can recover our data. To implement follow below steps -

1. Note down the Disk holding your data along with the datastore name. You can easily get this info by right clicking on the VM & Edit Settings.

2. We first need to remove the disk attached to the affected VM. Click on "X" icon to remove it. ( Don't check mark delete from Datastore also option)

3. One removed, we can navigate to other Working VM , Right click --> Edit Settings --> Add Hard drive & here select existing Hard disk Option.

4. Navigate to the datastore containing the disk. ( This was noted in Step 1)

5. Login to the VM. Navigate to Disk management & mark the newly disk as Online.

Able to see all the data now.