She opened a fresh terminal and typed:
esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable false echo "All restored. Go to sleep, Lena." She didn’t sleep. She wrote documentation: “How to repair ESXi partition table using partedUtil – a near-death experience.” esxi repair partition table
Then: esxcfg-volume -l → “VMFS UUID 5d2a8b2e-fc0f2b10-1234-7845c4f5a9b1” appeared. She opened a fresh terminal and typed: esxcli
Then she used partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 – it returned garbage: partitions overlapping, wrong end sectors. wrong end sectors.