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If corruption is found, try cloning the disk to bypass bad sectors: vmkfstools -i /path/to/corrupted.vmdk /path/to/new.vmdk .

Several third-party tools are available for VMFS recovery, including: recovering vmfs

If the VMFS volume cannot be repaired but the data is critical: If corruption is found, try cloning the disk

Do you have a backup of the VMFS datastore, or are you recovering from the only copy? If corruption is found

: On an ESXi host, rescan the storage adapters to detect the affected VMFS partition.