Thembi Moyo
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Inaccessible VM VMWARE
I am running an old ESXi 5.5 host. I had power failure and a VM reported that it was "inaccessible". I removed it from inventory and created a new VM and attached the existing VMDK to the new VM. I can not seem to boot the new VM it says "OS not found". What did I miss? Please help.
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Thank you Andrew for getting back to me on this matter.
I managed to access the datastore and this is what I see.
How do I get the vmx into inventory?
I managed to access the datastore and this is what I see.
How do I get the vmx into inventory?
Browse the datastore, Right Click the VMX file, and select Add to Inventory.
Check the sizes of the files.
Check the sizes of the files.
ASKER
Add to Inventory is greyed out...
That suggests it does not recognise it as a VMX configuration file.
Check sizes, you can also check the contents, it's on a text file.
Check sizes, you can also check the contents, it's on a text file.
ASKER
I failed to vi the .vmx file or any other. The Sizes look ok but i cant access them.
Looks like all files on your datastore are corrupt.
Hence the VMDK not booting.
What supports the datastore, RAID, single disk etc
Hence the VMDK not booting.
What supports the datastore, RAID, single disk etc
ASKER
Its single disks...
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An inaccessible usually indicates, that a datastore has failed, and hence where the VM is located is inaccessible.
OS not found, suggest the VMDK is corrupted. (from the console or remotely via ssh)
Have you checked the sizes on disk?
You could possible try and verify the VMDK to check if is corrupted.