Vmware Repair Vmfs Partition May 2026

partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60012345 The output showed one partition with type “Unknown.” But the start and end sectors were still there.

Her boss, half-asleep, yelled from the kitchen: “Can you just restore from backup?” vmware repair vmfs partition

The underlying hardware was fine. A routine firmware update on the SAN had crashed midway, corrupting the partition table on the LUN. The disks were still there, spinning away, but ESXi couldn’t see the VMFS signature anymore. To the hypervisor, the partition now looked like raw, unformatted space. partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/naa