Recovery Vmfs May 2026

We’ve all been there. You log into vCenter, click on a datastore, and your heart sinks. Instead of the happy green "Normal" status, you see "Not Mounted" or "Corrupted." Maybe an ESXi host lost power during a SAN firmware update, or someone accidentally deleted a LUN mapping.

Stay calm. Run esxcfg-scsidevs . Use vmkfstools -V . And whatever you do, recovery vmfs

The Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) is incredibly resilient, but it isn't invincible. The good news? You just need to know the right commands and the right order of operations. We’ve all been there