Recovery of a partition table lost on a VMFS-5 with GPT volume?

Hello

I have 5 ESXi

due to a will (partition), probably an iSCSI LUN that is still visible under the target cannot be seen as data store not more

Help all data, servers and virtual machines are lost... (they are probably still, but not seen more)   How to recover or to repeat again in the data store?

PSE HELP

I saw this article http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & externalId = 1002281 & sliceId = 2 & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & dialogID = 291642884 & stateId = 1 0 292764722

manages VMFS3 and the use of Fdisk u

Can someone tell how to do it with Partutil?

TNX for quick response

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Why don't you ask before if you are unsure about the procedure?

Run the two commands after that other was a bad idea

Here's what I do now:

create a volume dd image and store it somewhere safe

1 delete the partition again - once again using partedUtil
2 check the partition table and make sure it is clean
3. recreate the partition with the command B
4. start system with a USB of UNUSED ESXi or even better with a LiveCD ESXi5 to rule out any missmatches signatures
5. try turning up the volume manually, if it is not detected automatically

If this does not work

1 delete the partition again - once again using partedUtil
2 check the partition table and make sure it is clean
3. recreate the partition with the command
4. start system with a USB of UNUSED ESXi or even better with a LiveCD ESXi5 to rule out any missmatches signatures
5. try turning up the volume manually, if it is not detected automatically

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