“It’s finding the inodes,” Leo murmured, more to himself than Mark.
He browsed the datastore. The VMDK files were there. The configuration files were there. With trembling hands, he registered the VM back into inventory. Right-click. Power On. recover vmfs file system
Found 3 VMFS heartbeat regions. Detected primary file system descriptor at block 16384. File system UUID: 4c2c1a05-fcba-497a-8f3e-... Reconstructing pointer tables. “It’s finding the inodes,” Leo murmured, more to
The command was deceptively simple:
Five minutes passed. Ten. The phone rang—a VP asking for an ETA. Leo ignored it. “It’s finding the inodes
vmfs-recover -r /dev/disks/naa.6782a4b2c91d0001
Leo looked at the screen, at the last line of the log: Recovery complete. 100% data integrity verified.