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Are you getting a specific error when you try to add the VM to inventory and it doesn't work?
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Are you getting a specific error when you try to add the VM to inventory and it doesn't work?

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Great!!!!! &nbsp;Thank you that worked.. &nbsp;
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Glad to help :)<br />
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~coolsport00
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scenerio<br />
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Dell server with 1 terabyte local storage at our remote office.<br />
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We loaded it with memory and are running esxi 4.1 from a usb stick….<br />
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we built a guest(virtual Machine) on that host<br />
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We wonder what would happen should the flash drive ever go bad…<br />
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We pulled out the existing flash drive and replaced it with a new one containing esxi preloaded.<br />
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We put the configuration in and saw that we can see the storage and files in it .. but we cannot bring up our guest virtual machine.…<br />
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We see the vmdk files but can not bring it up via vsphere client.. <br />
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How do you recover if your esxi flash drive failed and needed to be replaced?
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scenerio

Dell server with 1 terabyte local storage at our remote office.

We loaded it with memory and are running esxi 4.1 from a usb stick….

we built a guest(virtual Machine) on that host

We wonder what would happen should the flash drive ever go bad…

We pulled out the existing flash drive and replaced it with a new one containing esxi preloaded.

We put the configuration in and saw that we can see the storage and files in it .. but we cannot bring up our guest virtual machine.…


We see the vmdk files but can not bring it up via vsphere client.. 


How do you recover if your esxi flash drive failed and needed to be replaced?

VMware ESXi 4.1 recovery question

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.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Disaster Recovery is the planning for and creation of policies and procedures related to the resumption or continuation of an organization's functions following a catastrophic event. The term is most frequently used in relation to failure of networks, but DR preparations also include other business systems and personnel considerations.