It was 2:00 AM on a Tuesday when Jenna’s phone buzzed with the dreaded alert:
“Repaired the VMFS partition,” she said, trying not to smile too wide.
That’s when she remembered:
Her boss, half-asleep, yelled from the kitchen: “Can you just restore from backup?”
And that was the night she stopped trusting firmware updates and started documenting every single partedUtil and vmfs-fdisk command in a shared wiki—just in case the next poor soul got the same 2:00 AM alert. vmware repair vmfs partition
partedUtil set /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60012345 1 6 2048 25165823 Then, the moment of truth:
esxcfg-volume -M /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60012345:1 She held her breath. The console ticked. It was 2:00 AM on a Tuesday when
She was the senior virtualization engineer for a mid-sized financial firm. Fifty-seven virtual machines—including the exchange server, the CRM, and the entire payroll system—lived on a single 12 TB VMFS datastore. And now, that datastore had vanished from vCenter.