Vmfs Repair Partition Table

VMFS volumes require precise block alignment. Specifying incorrect start or end sectors can overwrite valid metadata structures and permanently destroy files. Standard Layout Properties

He opened an SSH session to the first ESXi host and typed the command he’d only ever practiced on a test lab: vmfs repair partition table

VMFS partitions usually start at sector (for modern GPT) or 128 . If you found the VMFS header at a specific offset, you can convert that to sectors and manually write a new partition table. VMFS volumes require precise block alignment

esxcli storage filesystem mount -l <DatastoreUUID> vmfs repair partition table