This time, the output was beautiful. A single partition, type 6 (which maps to VMFS), starting at sector 2048 , ending at 8796093022207 . Clean. Whole.
Then came the critical command. The incantation. He whispered it aloud as he typed: vmfs repair partition table
He double-clicked it. The list of virtual machines populated like ghosts returning to a room. SQL-FIN-01. HR-Payroll. App-Tomcat. This time, the output was beautiful