| Tool | Capability | |------|-------------| | | Scans entire LUN, rebuilds VMFS 5 structures, recovers files/folders. | | UFS Explorer Professional | VMFS 5/6 support, RAID reconstruction, deleted VM recovery. | | Stellar Data Recovery for VMware | Quick and deep scan for VMFS volumes. |
partedUtil set /dev/disks/naa.xxxxxx 1 2048 <end_sector> aa31e02a400f11db9590000c2911d1b8 0 Where aa31... is the VMFS partition GUID. The end sector is total sectors minus 1 (e.g., getptbl can show max sector). On a Linux recovery host with vmfs-tools : recover vmfs 5 datastore
esxcli storage vmfs snapshot resignature -l <original_label> Or mount as snapshot: | Tool | Capability | |------|-------------| | |
esxcli storage core adapter rescan --all From vSphere Client: . 3.2 Restore VMFS Volume from Remaining Partition Table If the VMFS partition is missing but the LUN still has valid GPT/MBR: | partedUtil set /dev/disks/naa