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Hello, I’ve 2 Exsi hosts ( V5.5) which are connected to one SAN. One host is offline now due to hardware issue and wondering how can obtain the images and rerun those in the online host.

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If ALL the Virtual Machines (I think that';s what you may be calling images) are on the SAN, just browse the datastore and add those VMs to the Inventory and power them on.



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They can't be in a cluster or you would see them already so the SAN must have host mappings / LUN masking set up so one host sees one datastore and the other sees a different one. We would have to know make/model of the SAN to tell you how to change the host presentation.
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HI Andrew,

I am able to browse the data store and access the VM folders. There are many files such as .log, .nvram , .vmdk , .vmsd ..etc.

Could you please clarify below points.

1 ) Is there any option add VMs directly from current data location ?
2 ) Only .vmdk is required if need to create a new VM with a existing file ?

Thanks,
Chanaka
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And no, there is no way to just add all VMs found and not in inventory yet, it is a manual process.