Liam’s fingers flew.
He held his breath and navigated back to the vSphere client. He right-clicked the datastore and clicked “Rescan Storage.”
Then came the critical command. The incantation. He whispered it aloud as he typed: vmfs repair partition table
Liam’s heart hammered against his ribs. 4.2 terabytes of production data. No recent backups that weren’t corrupted by the previous week’s ransomware scare. His career flashed before his eyes.
At 3:15 AM, he sent a single message to Sarah: “Fixed. Partition table was corrupt. VMFS repair worked. All systems operational. Going to sleep now.” Liam’s fingers flew
Repair successful. Restored backup GPT table.
He stared at the vSphere client. The datastore, labeled DS-Finance-Prod , had a grey question mark icon next to it. The partition table was gibberish. The LUN was there, but VMFS had forgotten how to read itself. The incantation
He made a mental note: send a donation to the VMware community forum. And for the love of all that is holy, finally set up those automated backups.