While this essay focuses on recovery, the best strategy is proactive protection. Always maintain up-to-date backups of VMs using tools like Veeam, VMware Data Protection, or native snapshots (with caution). Additionally, enable VMFS heartbeating and use redundant storage (RAID, SAN) to reduce single points of failure. Document your LUN IDs, partition starting sectors, and ESXi version, as this information accelerates recovery.
Recovering a VMFS partition requires understanding what went wrong. The most frequent causes include: vmfs partition recovery