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Can you browse the VM folders, on the VMFS datastore, and add the virtual machines back ?<br />
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You could run a script, to look for orphaned files, which are not registered with the inventory.
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Can you browse the VM folders, on the VMFS datastore, and add the virtual machines back ?

You could run a script, to look for orphaned files, which are not registered with the inventory.

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PowerGUI plugin for vmware can sort those out fairly quickly
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PowerGUI plugin for vmware can sort those out fairly quickly

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is there any command for power gui gheist<br />
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we have 400+ vds andrew it is impossible to find one by one
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is there any command for power gui gheist

we have 400+ vds andrew it is impossible to find one by one

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Install powergui power pack for vmware (which requires vmware powercli from vmware)<br />
Then look for &quot;orphaned vmdk report&quot;<br />
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Alternatively on a single ESXi machine you can SSH and run find / -name *vmdk -mtime +10<br />
i.e look for files named vmdk and not modified recently
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Install powergui power pack for vmware (which requires vmware powercli from vmware)
Then look for "orphaned vmdk report"

Alternatively on a single ESXi machine you can SSH and run find / -name *vmdk -mtime +10
i.e look for files named vmdk and not modified recently

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Our stuff has made a mistake while removing virtual machines , they had bring the vmx files and just removed from the invertory. <br />
We are using cloud nodes and 1 storage with 3HDD on storage. <br />
Is there any way to find vmx directories which is not added to the cluster
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Our stuff has made a mistake while removing virtual machines , they had bring the vmx files and just removed from the invertory. 
We are using cloud nodes and 1 storage with 3HDD on storage. 
Is there any way to find vmx directories which is not added to the cluster

Esx find not added vmx files

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