But here is the critical truth:
It’s the call no VMware administrator wants to receive. A datastore is missing. Perhaps a junior admin clicked the wrong button, a script ran amok, or a storage snapshot was reverted incorrectly. The virtual machines (VMs) are gone from the inventory, and your heart sinks. undelete vmfs datastore
Remember: VMware doesn't delete your data; it just loses its keys. Go find the keys. Have you ever successfully recovered a VMFS datastore using a method not listed here? Share your war story with your team—it’s the best kind of learning. But here is the critical truth: It’s the