Recover Vmfs Volume (Must Read)

After a tense few minutes, the RDMp tool completed the recovery process, and John was able to see the prod-vms volume reappear on the ESXi host. He quickly mounted the volume and verified that all the critical VMs were intact and accessible.

If you have recently performed a storage-level replication or snapshot restore, ESXi may hide the volume to prevent data corruption. This happens because the UUID on the disk matches one already known to the system. Log in to the ESXi host via SSH. Run esxcli storage vmfs snapshot list . If your volume appears here, it is detected as a snapshot. recover vmfs volume

In the aftermath, John and his team analyzed the root cause of the issue. They discovered that a combination of a firmware bug and a power outage had caused the ESXi host to crash, leading to the VMFS volume corruption. After a tense few minutes, the RDMp tool