MY VMS are gone-Inaccessible virtual machines are named as Unknown inaccesible

it should be external storage or internal?
We recently acquired this organization

doesn't matter as long as you have access

have a look in datastores, do you have any ?

otherwise, browse the datastore and re-add them to inventory.

if your datastore has failed, then you'll need to restore.

Yes, I didn't see any data store in inventory , it's displaying 0. May be it was external and some how got disconnected physically. I will check in the server room tomorrow . Few vms were hosted on this. If it's external, Di I need to connect to esx s USB port or what? Thanjsv

normally a SAS port but could be USB port.. Once you find out document everything so you or others  will know in the future.

USB Datastores are not supported... not sure how you would have created a USB datastore.

Datastores, could be external, internal, remote - iSCSI, NFS or FC

Hello

validate your physical server and your storage box.

I remain attentive to your comments.

regards..

Thank you everyone for all your help. Certainly, raid data store was turned off. Once connected , I was able to restore my vm s back. Thanks guys

thanks