I'm looking for help to recover VM's from a corrupt datastore.
One of the hard disks in the ESXi host died and the technician on site did not have much technical knowledge, he replaced the hard disk while te server was still online (not hotswappable) which led to a full server crash. We reinstalled ESXi and during the install we were asked to preserve the found datastore so we did. Now after the reinstall we can mount and unmount the datastore but i shows empty.
When i connect to the server through SSH i can see some remains of the servers installed but it says no such file or directory.
[root@localhost:~] find -name "*.vmdk*"
find: ./vmfs/volumes/554c923f-428aa450-aedc-e4115b1176a4/ISO: No such file or directory
find: ./vmfs/volumes/554c923f-428aa450-aedc-e4115b1176a4/FP03-PTG: No such file or directory
find: ./vmfs/volumes/554c923f-428aa450-aedc-e4115b1176a4/DC03-PTG: No such file or directory
[root@localhost:~]
Volume Name VMFS UUID Extent Number Device Name Partition
----------- ----------------------------------- ------------- ------------------------------------ ---------
datastore1 554c923f-428aa450-aedc-e4115b1176a4 0 naa.600508b1001c86079490cfbc95797a87 3
When voma -m vmfs -f check -d /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001c86079490cfbc95797a87:3 is run it failes with the message stated below.
ON-DISK ERROR: <FD c217 r139> : excessive bad/dup blocks.
VOMA failed to check device : Fatal error encountered
Total Errors Found: 16653
Kindly Consult VMware Support for further assistance
This is as far as I got with my limited VMWare knowledge and I hope you guys can point me in the right direction since our local technician kindly "forgot" to make backups of the servers and now we have no more Domain Controllers....
If anymore information is needed let me know.
Thanks in advance,
Michiel