Datastore !!better!! - Recover Vmfs

Maya grabbed coffee and her battle-tested Linux VM with vmfs-tools compiled. First rule of VMFS recovery: do not write anything to the affected LUN . She used a rescue Linux live CD on a physical host with HBA access.

Step 6: Re-register each VM from the configuration file: # find /vmfs/volumes/Prod-HighSpeed -name "*.vmx" -exec vim-cmd solo/registervm {} \; recover vmfs datastore

Step 1: Identify the device. fdisk -l showed /dev/sde as 12 TB, with partition 1 (VMFS) starting at sector 2048. Good—partition still there. Maya grabbed coffee and her battle-tested Linux VM