Partition Table Recovery: Vmfs

Next, John decided to try using a third-party recovery tool, DiskInternals VMFS Recovery . He downloaded and installed the tool on a separate machine, then connected to the SAN array.

John repeated the process for the remaining VMs, and soon all of them were up and running. The server room was quiet once again, with all VMs accessible and humming along. vmfs partition table recovery

The scan took several hours, but eventually, the tool reported finding a corrupted VMFS partition table. John was able to select the recovered partition table and export it to a file. Next, John decided to try using a third-party

John decided to try using VMware's built-in tools first. He booted the ESXi server in rescue mode and ran vmfs-tool to scan the SAN array. Unfortunately, the tool was unable to detect any valid VMFS partitions. The server room was quiet once again, with

Use esxcfg-vmhbadevs or fdisk -l to find the device name (e.g., /dev/disks/naa... ).

Use vmkfstools to scan for VMFS superblocks without relying on the partition table: