Repair Partition Table — Vmfs

He stared at the vSphere client. The datastore, labeled DS-Finance-Prod , had a grey question mark icon next to it. The partition table was gibberish. The LUN was there, but VMFS had forgotten how to read itself.

He could feel the sweat trickle down his temple. Restoring from the backup would take 18 hours. The company would bleed money. He’d be writing resumes by dawn. vmfs repair partition table

DS-Finance-Prod reappeared. Capacity: 4.2 TB. Free space: 1.8 TB. Type: VMFS-6. He stared at the vSphere client

As he shut his laptop, he glanced at the terminal one last time. partedUtil repair . Three words that had just saved his job, his reputation, and the sanity of a thousand employees. The LUN was there, but VMFS had forgotten how to read itself

Liam’s fingers flew.

It was 2:00 AM, and the only light in the data center came from the blinking sea of server LEDs and the pale glow of Liam’s laptop screen. He’d been awake for thirty hours.

Repair successful. Restored backup GPT table.