Repair Vmfs Datastore Info

There are third-party tools (like UFS Explorer or DiskInternals VMFS Recovery) that can be installed on a Windows machine. You can present the LUN to that Windows machine (RDM or direct connection), and the software scans the raw blocks for *.vmdk headers and pulls the files off.

If the VMFS metadata partition is corrupted, the datastore will appear as a blank disk. repair vmfs datastore

: Verify if the LUN is visible to the ESXi host under Configure > Storage Devices . There are third-party tools (like UFS Explorer or