Re: Datastore import failure

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Using VMFSrecovery tool I found that starting sector (I don't know why) on this datastore set at sector 36864.

Just used partedUtil to change starting offset from 2048 to 36864.

Then ran vmkfstools -V

And finally I can see missing datastore in "Datastores" view, but cannot mount it due to following error:

Call "HostStorageSystem.MountVmfsVolume" for object "storageSystem" on ESXi "<ESXI_HOST_IP_Address>" failed.

Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to find volume uuid[58df616b-d5203334-2c9c-3ca82aa0cf20] lvm [] devices

I am now able to see metadata info:

# vmkfstools -P -h /vmfs/volumes/Datastore/

VMFS-5.61 file system spanning 1 partitions.

File system label (if any): Datastore

Mode: public

Capacity 7.3 TB, 1.7 TB available, file block size 1 MB, max supported file size 62.9 TB

UUID: 58df616b-d5203334-2c9c-3ca82aa0cf20

Partitions spanned (on "disks"):

        naa.600605b003b170f020721bf665b2d1c2:1

Is Native Snapshot Capable: YES

In addition to that I am able to see datastore and also can browse all VMDK files on it using SSH

ls -la /vmfs/volumes/Datastore

Guys, do you know how this can be fixed?

What should be done to allow datastore mount?