Recover Vmfs File System [hot] -

The list returned the device: naa.6782a4b2c91d0001 . Capacity: 12TB. Partition table: . His stomach dropped. A storage engineer on the call confirmed the SAN had lost a controller for 47 seconds during a firmware update. A cascading write error. The partition table, the file system’s map of the world, had been shredded.

Leo looked at the screen, at the last line of the log: Recovery complete. 100% data integrity verified. recover vmfs file system

He was already logging into the physical host via SSH. The command line was a cold, unforgiving place compared to the GUI. He typed: The list returned the device: naa

“Mark, stop crying and open a second SSH session. We’re going scavenger hunting.” recover vmfs file system

vmfs-recover -R -S 16384 /dev/disks/naa.6782a4b2c91d0001 --output /vmfs/volumes/scratch/new_descriptor.vmfs