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Did you by any chance &quot;Snapshot&quot; the VM right after you set it up for the first time. You may me looking at the static snapshot instead of the delta files that are generated after.<br />

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Did you by any chance "Snapshot" the VM right after you set it up for the first time. You may me looking at the static snapshot instead of the delta files that are generated after.


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is there a way to go back to the way i was with the snapshots?
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is there a way to go back to the way i was with the snapshots?

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The above recommendation from -proteksys- &nbsp;is what VMWare support recommends, especially when you have issues rolling up the the snapshots.
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The above recommendation from -proteksys-  is what VMWare support recommends, especially when you have issues rolling up the the snapshots.

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I had a server running ESX 3.5 60 day trial. My trial period has ended so I installed ESXi instead. I had 2 hard drives 1 with ESX installed on it and 2nd one with all of my VM's. <br />
What I did is, I formatted the 1st drive and installed ESXi on it. When booted the server I was able to see the datastore and all of my VM's. When I create a new vm and associate the old VMDK file from the VM folder, I am able to load the VM but it running as if it was the first day I installed my Vm. I don't have any application and data which I installed on the old VM? <br />
What can I do to keep working from the place I left off with the old ESX server?<br />
HELP<br />

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I had a server running ESX 3.5 60 day trial. My trial period has ended so I installed ESXi instead. I had 2 hard drives 1 with ESX installed on it and 2nd one with all of my VM's. 
What I did is, I formatted the 1st drive and installed ESXi on it. When booted the server I was able to see the datastore and all of my VM's. When I create a new vm and associate the old VMDK file from the VM folder, I am able to load the VM but it running as if it was the first day I installed my Vm. I don't have any application and data which I installed on the old VM? 
What can I do to keep working from the place I left off with the old ESX server?
HELP


Restore VM in ESXi

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.