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Thats the problem, I see if I log into the ESX host, and do and do and ls, I see the VMX file, but unable to see the same file in FastSCP.
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Thats the problem, I see if I log into the ESX host, and do and do and ls, I see the VMX file, but unable to see the same file in FastSCP.

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no... abandon project so not sure if it was totally successful.
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no... abandon project so not sure if it was totally successful.

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I used Veeam FastSCP to copy a Guest OS to my harddrive and then I deleted the VM from the datastore.<br />
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I then copied it back, all welll and good, but I could not get the datastore to see it, I found out that it did not &quot;have&quot; a vmx file, so I recreated the vmx file, the datastore saw, and life was good.<br />
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But when I use datastore browser it does not see the VMX file nor does FastSCP, if I log in to the host I can find it in the directory.<br />
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All other VM's have vmx files, and I can see them in the datastore.<br />
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the permissons on the vmx file look standard, rwxr-xr-x &nbsp;<br />
any ideas?<br />
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also on a 2nd note, anyone use FastSCP to copy a running VM?
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I used Veeam FastSCP to copy a Guest OS to my harddrive and then I deleted the VM from the datastore.

I then copied it back, all welll and good, but I could not get the datastore to see it, I found out that it did not "have" a vmx file, so I recreated the vmx file, the datastore saw, and life was good.

But when I use datastore browser it does not see the VMX file nor does FastSCP, if I log in to the host I can find it in the directory.

All other VM's have vmx files, and I can see them in the datastore.

the permissons on the vmx file look standard, rwxr-xr-x  
any ideas?

also on a 2nd note, anyone use FastSCP to copy a running VM?

VMX file in ESX 3.5

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.