Modern environments typically use VMFS5 or VMFS6 , with VMFS6 supporting larger capacities (up to 64 TB) and more than 100 million files per drive. Common Causes of VMFS Data Loss
# Identify VMFS partitions (Linux with vmfs-tools or esxcli) esxcli storage vmfs snapshot list partedUtil get /dev/disks/naa.600... | grep vmfs vmfs recovery
Failed drives in a RAID array (e.g., RAID 5 or RAID 6) hosting the datastore. Modern environments typically use VMFS5 or VMFS6 ,