tail -100 /var/log/vmkernel.log | grep -i vmfs
Use extreme caution here. You must calculate the exact start and end sectors based on the disk size. recover vmfs metadata
After the tool runs:
To effectively, you must identify the level of corruption���whether it is a simple mounting issue or structural damage to the Allocation Bitmaps and File Descriptor Blocks . VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is a high-performance cluster file system that stores virtual machine data as a collection of large files. When metadata fails, ESXi hosts may refuse to mount the datastore, making your virtual disks (VMDKs) inaccessible. Core Tools for VMFS Metadata Recovery tail -100 /var/log/vmkernel