Hello,   No, you can't use HIT/ME in this case.   The HIT kit requires the MS ISCSI initiator to function properly. For both creation and restoring from snapshots.  VSM works against the entire VMFS Datastore.  First asking VCS to create VMware VMDK snapshots, the VSM will request EQL volume snapshots.    VSM doesn't currently offer file level restores.  However, you can do so manually.    Bring the EQL snapshot of the Datastore online.   Connect it to an ESXi node and add that snapshot of the Datastore to that node.   (Using Add Storage, after rescanning the ESXi iSCSI initiator)    It will rename the snapshot of the Datastore to:   "snapshot-XXXXXX-   You can do a couple of things here.  Copy the entire virtual disk from snapshot to original Datastore. Or more commonly add the VMDK file from the snapshot to another VM as another disk.   When you boot that VM, it will show up as a new drive letter.  Then you can copy the individual files off that copy.   One important thing to note.  When you use a snapshot you will be using up snapshot reserve.  So make sure if you are not already allocating 100% snapshot reserve that you increase it as much as possible.  If you consume all the reserve the snapshot you are working with will be deleted.  Depending on what EQL FW version, you can borrow from free space.  This is especially true if you are overwriting an entire VMDK.   That will use up reserve very quickly..  When you are done with the EQL snapshot, first make sure no VMs are still using it.  Then put the EQL snapshot OFFLINE, in EQL GUI.  Then do a rescan of the iSCSI initiator in ESXi GUI.  This will cleanly remove the volume from the ESXi node.  Otherwise, it might constantly try to reconnect to the EQL snapshot, generating repeating errors in the EQL GUI, and alerts if you have them configured.   Regards, 
Hi there, I wonder if somebody could explain a bit more on VSM and HIT kit integration without guest ISCSI based scenario like below.. Exchange and SQL servers are running as vm on Vcenter/Vsphere 5.5 environment and there is no guest ISCSI connection which means all the disks are vmdk. So based on this scenario, is it possible to use HIT kit to restore some data (granular level) even though snapshot has been taken via VSM datastore option? Thansk in advanced...
Exchange or SQL vm with HIT Kit and VSM snapshot