SAN Data recovery, VMWARE
Long story short I have a HP MAS1000 that connects via fiber channel to 3 ESX servers. A power outage hit, and some of the LUNS or Units did not come back online, so my esx shows missing vms.
When I search the Datastore, I can not look into the luns I am trying to get to. I called HP and they told me to run the command Accept unit on the MAS1000. The luns now show good from the san but ESX, can't read the partition table and although I could map it as a new datastore, I get a warning that says all data can be lost.....(scared)
My issue, are there any tools out there that would allow me to mount those LUNS, to try some sort of data recovery, and is there a good way to back up a LUN that cant be mounted in vmware, I have an extra server with a fiberchannel card, I can install anything on it that would help me out.
Thanks in advance
When I search the Datastore, I can not look into the luns I am trying to get to. I called HP and they told me to run the command Accept unit on the MAS1000. The luns now show good from the san but ESX, can't read the partition table and although I could map it as a new datastore, I get a warning that says all data can be lost.....(scared)
My issue, are there any tools out there that would allow me to mount those LUNS, to try some sort of data recovery, and is there a good way to back up a LUN that cant be mounted in vmware, I have an extra server with a fiberchannel card, I can install anything on it that would help me out.
Thanks in advance
Paul Solovyovsky
Most of the time the data is corrupt and is unrecoverable. See if you can clone the LUN first and try any mounting on the cloned LUN.
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One of my problems, is I just don't have the space on the HP MaS1000 to clone it, I do have QNAP which can do NFS and ISCSI mounts, etc... although I am not sure what to use VMware DD or even windows to copy from the one store to the other. Again, I can't actually mount the LUN in ESX, it sees it, but takes to me, the your data will be destroyed warning.
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Have you used VMFS recovery does it seem to work,
I put an esxi5 box up for testing on this, when I run esxcfg-volume -l it doesn't give me anything
I did a "su -" went to /usr/sbin, I can help the command esxcfg-volume --? and get a read out but when I do the -l it doesn't list anything.
I put an esxi5 box up for testing on this, when I run esxcfg-volume -l it doesn't give me anything
I did a "su -" went to /usr/sbin, I can help the command esxcfg-volume --? and get a read out but when I do the -l it doesn't list anything.
Yes, VMFS recovery does work.
esxcfg-volume -l should show VMFS datastores.
esxcfg-volume -l should show VMFS datastores.
ASKER
Should I install windows to the physical box or do you think I can run a fiberchannel connection through a Win7 VM