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When accessing VMFS volumes from Windows, you may encounter some challenges and limitations:

VMware deliberately does not provide a native Windows driver for VMFS. Allowing direct write access from an untrusted OS (Windows) to a shared VMFS datastore could corrupt locks, leading to the “VMFS heartbeat error” or complete datastore corruption. Safe access is only allowed via the vSphere stack or certified gateways. vmfs windows