The backup was from yesterday, but that meant losing an entire day’s transactions. Her boss would have a heart attack.
Elena’s phone buzzed at 11:47 PM. The message from her boss was short and sharp: “Production VM down. Corrupt VMDK. Need you now.”
“Alright, VMDK,” she muttered, “let’s see how bad it is.” fix corrupt vmdk file
Here’s a short story about fixing a corrupt VMDK file.
vmkfstools -x check /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/FinanceVM/FinanceVM.vmdk The tool spat back: “Disk chain is corrupted. Repair impossible.” The backup was from yesterday, but that meant
She smiled. Another corrupt VMDK slain. Tomorrow, she’d automate the descriptor backups.
But for now, sleep.
Her first attempt was the safe route. She used vmkfstools from the ESXi command line: