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did you run it as &quot;root&quot; account?<br />
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If not, then you just remove those files that user account can removed. So your ESXi still ok.<br />
Otherwise, you need to restore from backup/snapshot or restall if no backup.<br />
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Contact VMware for suggestion.
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did you run it as "root" account?

If not, then you just remove those files that user account can removed. So your ESXi still ok.
Otherwise, you need to restore from backup/snapshot or restall if no backup.

Contact VMware for suggestion.

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Unfortunately not.<br />
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I would suggest re-installiing from a backup.<br />
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Have you deleted your vmfs volumes and virtual machines?
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Unfortunately not.

I would suggest re-installiing from a backup.

Have you deleted your vmfs volumes and virtual machines?

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Yes, I delete all, and... I haven't backup :-(
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Yes, I delete all, and... I haven't backup :-(

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Well, I desesperate, I'm Spain, I call Recevy Labs, and said me that recover... could be nearly 12.000euros , 500Gb (RAID5)<br />
I should to find for a solution, or going to live to another country... je.<br />
Thanks.
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Well, I desesperate, I'm Spain, I call Recevy Labs, and said me that recover... could be nearly 12.000euros , 500Gb (RAID5)
I should to find for a solution, or going to live to another country... je.
Thanks.

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Because I coudn't paid a recover service
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I make an error, I type on ESXi rm -rf ./* when I was on /, I delete all.... could I recover??
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I make an error, I type on ESXi rm -rf ./* when I was on /, I delete all.... could I recover??

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