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October 26, 2023 Subject: Best Practices and Procedures for Recovering Lost or Corrupted VMFS Datastores
Recovery outcomes vary based on corruption severity. Always engage your backup and storage teams before writing any changes to a failing datastore. When in doubt, work offline on a clone of the affected LUN.
If manual reconstruction is too risky, third-party tools can scan the raw sectors and extract VMDK files directly to a different storage location. BitRecover VMFS Recovery Tool - Microsoft Marketplace
: Use esxcfg-scsidev -c list to find the console device path (e.g., /dev/disks/naa.600... ).