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One of our three ESXi hosts just went down, and we did NOT have HA enabled.

So now we have several VMs that say (disconnected). When I right click on a VM, I don't have the option to "Migrate".

Please advise the best way to move the effected VMs to the other ESXi hosts.

Environment Background:
3 DELL PowerEdge 2950 servers using NetApp FAS 2240 on NFS volumes. All volumes connected to 3 hosts.

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Paul Solovyovsky

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pzozulka

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Not sure but how would you restore a VM if it got corrupted. We use Veeam but let's pretend we don't. We do have storage vmotion, vsc, and flex clone.

Also how do these things help reduce down time to 10 min? Doesn't feel like I'm using any of them.

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piyushranusri

first step will suggest you that browse to that data store and see if you can access it ,if yes
then login to the host on that vm is showing disconnect.

remove from inventory, and login to another host browse the vm on shared storage select vm configuration file and right click then register the vm.

and if you not able to datastore then first look on storage part first.

please share the output