I've had a house fire and my old ESXi host hardware suffered enough that it powercycled continuously. The drives are seem to be perfectly fine though.
So house is rebuilt and I have new hardware (DL380 G7).
However my old hardware took 3.5" drives the DL380 takes 2.5" drives.
So the old VMs I had are on my 1TB SATA 3.5" which I cannot directly fit to the new equipment.
I do have a very nice USB SATA caddy though so I'm plugged all the bits in, stuck the drive in and powered up everything (including a shutdown and startup of the ESXi host).
This obviously has nothing to do with IOPS and speed this is purely rescue.
I am hoping that I can throw a few commands at my new machine to find the USB caddy (and subsequently the old VM datastore) so I can simply copy the old stuff to the new.
However I am not an infrastructure (I am trying to learn) so I haven't even got it to see the caddy yet.
I am happy to say I wasn't stupid enough to put precious things on the drive but over the years I have ripped my wifes and my own DVD/Bluray collection as well as our CDs and records.
Whilst I can do this again it has taken more years than i wish to admit.
Can someone direct me to some articles or knows the commands off by heart to rectify this woeful situation?
Thank you
