Introduction In any vSphere environment, the datastore is the fundamental storage container that holds virtual machines (VMs), ISO images, templates, and other critical files. When a datastore becomes inaccessible, corrupted, or suffers data loss, the impact is immediate and severe: VMs may fail to power on, storage vMotion operations halt, and in worst-case scenarios, production workloads are completely offline.
For VMFS6, use:
fsck.vmfs -D /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.xxxx If the VMFS partition is missing, recreate it manually without overwriting data: