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She opened a remote SSH session. First, she verified the disk: esxcli storage core device list → mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 – 500GB.

The command completed silently. She held her breath and typed: partedUtil get … – the table matched the healthy host. esxi repair partition table

Then she used partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 – it returned garbage: partitions overlapping, wrong end sectors. She opened a remote SSH session

She logged into the DCIM console. The HP ProLiant DL380 was still running, but the local VMFS datastore was inaccessible. She tried ls /vmfs/volumes/ — empty. She held her breath and typed: partedUtil get

Then: esxcfg-volume -l → “VMFS UUID 5d2a8b2e-fc0f2b10-1234-7845c4f5a9b1” appeared.

She didn’t panic. ESXi has a built-in repair tool: partedUtil fix but only if you know the original partition layout. She didn’t. She did have one clue: a working identical host in the same cluster.