partedUtil that comes with ESXi 6.0 vs gdisk Linux

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I just came across an interesting case:
An ESXi 6.0 host with 3 datastores run into a powerfailure.
Result: all 3 partitiontables were blank. partedUtil only displayed an unknown partitiontable type and no partitions at all.
Next I booted into my Linux LiveCD and here all 3 LUNs were displayed with complete and apparently correct partitiontables.
Question: what exactly does partedUtil ?
Does it do some checks on VMFS-volumes and only displays them when additional checks are passed ?
If it does NOT do any additional checks and just reads the MBR or GPT-table then partedUtil must be considered as buggy.
Any ideas ?

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Just for the record ....
Recovery case is now solved successfully.
Unfortunately ESXi itself was not able to handle this self inflicted corruption of the partition tables.
So I had to use a time consuming workaround and extracted all VMs with my Linux Recovery LiveCD.
Not trivial if vmdks larger than 256GB are used - but possible.
Lesson learned:
Running a standalone host with ESXi 6  without sufficient USV must be considered as an unacceptable risk.
If you have an unreliable powersupply rather stick with ESXi 5.1.
Do not use thin provisioned VMDKs ...
Ulli