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VMware 5 missing datastore
Hi,
I have a server I run at home that uses ESXi 5.1. I had a power outage the other night and when the server came back online the secondary HDD which contains a lot of my labs no longer shows as a datastore. I can see the physical disk and when I select to re-scan it doesn't find it.
I can see in the CLI that the disk has a partition and I am able to create a new partition (I haven't as I don't want to overwrite).
How can I recover the partition?
Cheers
Mark
I have a server I run at home that uses ESXi 5.1. I had a power outage the other night and when the server came back online the secondary HDD which contains a lot of my labs no longer shows as a datastore. I can see the physical disk and when I select to re-scan it doesn't find it.
I can see in the CLI that the disk has a partition and I am able to create a new partition (I haven't as I don't want to overwrite).
How can I recover the partition?
Cheers
Mark
VMwareVirtualization
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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
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WIll they allow me to restore an ESXi datastore? or just vmdk files.
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