Maya stared at the now-green dashboard. Somewhere in the datacenter, a disk blinked its steady heartbeat. She smiled. Another VMFS ghost story, beaten by knowing exactly where VMware hides its backup superblocks.
First, list the file system volumes to see if the system detects the VMFS filesystem but hasn't mounted it: recover vmfs datastore
If you recently took a storage array snapshot or replicated a LUN, VMware detects a snapshot signature and marks the original datastore as inactive to prevent corruption. Maya stared at the now-green dashboard
partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600507... recover vmfs datastore