Comments on: VMWare ESX: How to recover your VMFS partition table

By: admin

admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:52:29 +0000

I am glad I was able to help Wullie

By: Wullie

Wullie — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:28:16 +0000

Wow this just saved my backside.

Fantastic info and worked perfectly for me first time.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:02:33 +0000

Hi Guenter,

I can pass by you on my way to Toronto from Dubai so keep it ready .

Just kidding bro, unfortunately I have a direct flight already booked.

Regards,
Eiad

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:56:29 +0000

Hi,

thanks a lot. That was a lifesaver! God bless you! A desperate move, but it worked like a charm.

Alex

By: Guenter

Guenter — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:41:08 +0000

Had this problem today. Only wanted to remove an iscsi device from the inventory und used delete instead. I wonder why there was no warning like “destroying all data – are you really sure?”.

Anyway – you fix even works with ESXi 5.0.0

If you ever come to germany, there’s a box of wine waiting for you !

Thanks a lot.

By: Noel Moss

Noel Moss — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:31:09 +0000

This procedure saved my butt. Well done, sir.

Now I have to figure oput how the partition tables got clobbered in the first place.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 11 May 2011 22:30:43 +0000

Hi,

thanks a bunch for your post,
it saved an entire company this evening.

For future reference we saved a copy of every LUNs partition table on an usb stick with
sfdisk /dev/sdX -d > /mnt/usb/sdX-part.bak

So the next failure will be much less tricky.

Thanks again and best regards,
Patrick

By: Eiad

Eiad — Thu, 05 May 2011 09:29:59 +0000

Hi Webvirgin,

Your kind words have made my heart melt, & encouraged me to keep blogging .

Regards,
Eiad

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:25:30 +0000

Hi,

Harry again
this saved another company’s ESXi farm today … so it can be done on ESXi machines (this was 4.1) – all you need to do is to enable the Remote TechSupport (SSH) service under Configuration/Security profile
Never expected I would need this TWICE in so short time interval …

By: webvirgin

webvirgin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:52:41 +0000

After I try this solution, I went down to my knees (really!) and thanked god for helping me to send me to Eiad!

You saved my life also!

All my best wishes are with you,
Thank you!

Best Regards,
webvirgin!