Vmware Repair Vmfs Partition [repack] ★ Direct

The underlying hardware was fine. A routine firmware update on the SAN had crashed midway, corrupting the partition table on the LUN. The disks were still there, spinning away, but ESXi couldn’t see the VMFS signature anymore. To the hypervisor, the partition now looked like raw, unformatted space.

vmfs-fdisk -c /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60012345 It found a VMFS6 partition at sector 2048. But the partition table didn't point to it. The repair was manual but straightforward: rewrite the partition entry. vmware repair vmfs partition

partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60012345 The output showed one partition with type “Unknown.” But the start and end sectors were still there. The underlying hardware was fine

“Repaired the VMFS partition,” she said, trying not to smile too wide. the partition now looked like raw