He made a mental note: send a donation to the VMware community forum. And for the love of all that is holy, finally set up those automated backups.
Liam didn’t breathe. He immediately re-ran the get command. vmfs repair partition table
Then came the critical command. The incantation. He whispered it aloud as he typed: He made a mental note: send a donation
DS-Finance-Prod reappeared. Capacity: 4.2 TB. Free space: 1.8 TB. Type: VMFS-6. He immediately re-ran the get command
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.
Liam slumped back in his chair. The hum of the servers, which had sounded like a death dirge an hour ago, now felt like a lullaby.