If a LUN was snapshots at the storage array level and re-presented to the ESXi host, the VMFS file system will detect a mismatch in the file system ID and lock the datastore to prevent corruption. This is the most common "false positive" for corruption.
VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is a clustered file system designed by VMware to store virtual machine disk images. While VMFS is robust, corruption can occur due to hardware failures, power outages, network issues (in NFS/iSCSI), or administrative errors. vmfs repair
Journaling failures or bugs in the ESXi version that lead to inconsistent file system states. If a LUN was snapshots at the storage
Before attempting a repair, identify the extent of the damage. Common symptoms include "Datastore Heartbeat" errors or VMs appearing as "Invalid" or "Inaccessible." While VMFS is robust, corruption can occur due