Our vSphere somehow was using a shared volume from another server which was recently formatted to be use as NTFS. The time I discovered it, the ESXi v4.1 host was still okay until one day when browsing the Datastore, it doesn't show the files (like the .vdhk, etc.). Even when I do an SSH session, when I go to the folder, it's totally not showing anything. However, VMs are still running but having issues like we are not able to update the contents inside anymore.
I guess because of the conflict in the SAN volume, it damaged the file system of the ESXi 4.1.
Is there anyway we can still recover the VMs? Salvage the virtual disk to be run on another ESXi?
I'm not a linux person so I'm sorry if I not able to put in all the details. Hoping for someone can guide me.
Thanks in advance!