Recovery Vmfs Direct

Create a new partition (assuming a standard 1MB offset):

Once the partition is recreated, attempt the mount again: recovery vmfs

partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6000c29c4c5a2b1c If the output is gibberish or empty, the partition table is zeroed out. You need to know the old partition size. Usually, a VMFS datastore uses the entire LUN (Partition starting at sector 2048). Create a new partition (assuming a standard 1MB

vmkfstools -V -r /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6000c29c4c5a2b1c:1 If the metadata is corrupt (files show up, but VMs won't power on), you need the VMFS Offline Metadata Analyzer ( voma ). vmkfstools -V -r /vmfs/devices/disks/naa

We’ve all been there. You log into vCenter, click on a datastore, and your heart sinks. Instead of the happy green "Normal" status, you see "Not Mounted" or "Corrupted." Maybe an ESXi host lost power during a SAN firmware update, or someone accidentally deleted a LUN mapping.