Similar issue - 6.0u3 esxi host at remote office worked fine for a couple years, today after a power outage the local datastore disappears and vm's are 'inaccessible' after each reboot and "the esxi host does not have persistent storage' is displayed. The local sata hard drive is still present in the devices and the datastore reappears after manually initiating a refresh or rescan of storage. Datastore renaming or unmount/mount were tried after removing vm's from inventory and dropping to maintenance but it still disappears after reboot. Datastore and vm's can be browsed + inventoried after the refresh or rescan. SMART health status for the drive is OK. Error below is thrown during the add storage screens with no option to resignature the datastore. Any way to forcefully resignature this or other suggestions to try? Uhwanted last resort I'm considering is deleting the datastore and creating a new one. Thanks
