Vmfs Repair Partition Table ✦ Simple & Plus

He stared at the vSphere client. The datastore, labeled DS-Finance-Prod , had a grey question mark icon next to it. The partition table was gibberish. The LUN was there, but VMFS had forgotten how to read itself.

He double-clicked it. The list of virtual machines populated like ghosts returning to a room. SQL-FIN-01. HR-Payroll. App-Tomcat. vmfs repair partition table

He opened an SSH session to the first ESXi host and typed the command he’d only ever practiced on a test lab: He stared at the vSphere client

partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6000eb31004a2c1a0000000000004f9e The output was a disaster. The partition table showed a single, malformed entry with a type of 0x0 instead of the sacred 0xFB (VMFS). The start and end sectors were all zeros. It was as if someone had taken an eraser to the first 512 bytes of the disk. The LUN was there, but VMFS had forgotten how to read itself

He made a mental note: send a donation to the VMware community forum. And for the love of all that is holy, finally set up those automated backups.

This time, the output was beautiful. A single partition, type 6 (which maps to VMFS), starting at sector 2048 , ending at 8796093022207 . Clean. Whole.

DS-Finance-Prod reappeared. Capacity: 4.2 TB. Free space: 1.8 TB. Type: VMFS-6.