Several tools are available for recovering data from a VMFS partition. Some popular options include:
Few things trigger a SysAdmin’s fight-or-flight response like logging into vSphere and seeing a datastore showing as or "Invalid Partition" . Your heart sinks. VMs are down. Backups? Let’s not talk about that right now. data recovery vmfs partition
Once the partition table is back, ESXi still won't auto-mount it. You need to force a mount: Several tools are available for recovering data from
Let’s say the disk has 4294967296 sectors. The original VMFS partition likely started at sector 2048 and ended at the last sector minus 1. data recovery vmfs partition