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Restoring vm in ESXi 4.0 posted: Nov 2, 2009 12:19 AM

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raimundasjan
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Nov 1, 2009
Hello all,
currently i have two esxi hosts, one of them is esxi 3.5 u4 and other esxi 4.0. I have configured free backup solution with esxi_backup.pl script and successfully tested it backing up and restoring virtual machines on the same esxi 3.5 u4 host. Now i'm trying to move my vm's to the new esxi 4.0 host to upgrade old esxi 3.5 (i'm doing this becouse i need 64 bit support on guests, but when i was installing my first esxi host i forgot to enable Intel VT in BIOS), but when i move vm backup to my new esxi 4.0 server the vm does not start displaying error "coul'd not find file xxxxx-000003.vmdk". I have tryed to change virtual disk name in vmx file to xxxxx.vmdk and it works, but the state of vm is not from last snapshot but from the first install.
I would like to ask what do i need to do to load my vm with last snapshot.
Thanks
Tags: esxi4, recovery, restore, esxi-backup.pl

Re: Restoring vm in ESXi 4.0

1. Nov 2, 2009 12:35 AM in response to: raimundasjan
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athlon_crazy
524 posts since
Oct 28, 2007
If you still have the old image of the VM, use VMware converter to import the image to your ESXi 4.0 host. Converter will commit the snapshot but I believed it will maintain the last state of your VM.

vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta
vcbMC-1.0.7 Lite
http://www.no-x.org

Re: Restoring vm in ESXi 4.0

2. Nov 2, 2009 2:36 AM in response to: athlon_crazy
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raimundasjan
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Nov 1, 2009
i have vmware converter starter version, and it can only convert physical computer into vm, i could't import as appliance with it.

Re: Restoring vm in ESXi 4.0

3. Nov 2, 2009 4:51 AM in response to: raimundasjan
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raimundasjan
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Nov 1, 2009
here is my vmware.log:

Nov 02 12:23:10.838: vmx| VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading raw config
Nov 02 12:23:10.841: vmx| DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/vmfs/volumes/4ae974b9-de54c280-c9ad-00265558430a/Windows_XP/winxp-000004.vmdk' persistent R[]
Nov 02 12:23:10.856: vmx| DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/4ae974b9-de54c280-c9ad-00265558430a/Windows_XP/winxp-000004-delta.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified): AIOMgr_Open failed. Type 8
Nov 02 12:23:10.856: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmfs/volumes/4ae974b9-de54c280-c9ad-00265558430a/Windows_XP/winxp-000004.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
Nov 02 12:23:10.856: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/4ae974b9-de54c280-c9ad-00265558430a/Windows_XP/winxp-000004.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
Nov 02 12:23:10.856: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/4ae974b9-de54c280-c9ad-00265558430a/Windows_XP/winxp-000004.vmdk' with flags 0xa (The system cannot find the file specified).
Nov 02 12:23:10.857: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Nov 02 12:23:10.857: vmx| http://msg.disk.fileNotFound VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/4ae974b9-de54c280-c9ad-00265558430a/Windows_XP/winxp-000004.vmdk". Please verify the path is valid and try again.
Nov 02 12:23:10.857: vmx| http://msg.disk.noBackEnd Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/4ae974b9-de54c280-c9ad-00265558430a/Windows_XP/winxp-000004.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Nov 02 12:23:10.857: vmx| http://msg.disk.configureDiskError Reason: The system cannot find the file specified.----------------------------------------
Nov 02 12:23:10.862: vmx| Module DiskEarly power on failed.
Nov 02 12:23:10.862: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0
Nov 02 12:23:10.862: vmx| WORKER: asyncOps=0 maxActiveOps=0 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0
Nov 02 12:23:10.916: vmx| Vix: 69486 mainDispatch.c:3248: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=1, newAppState=1873, success=1
Nov 02 12:23:10.917: vmx| Vix: 69486 mainDispatch.c:3248: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=0, newAppState=1870, success=1
Nov 02 12:23:10.917: vmx| Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff
Nov 02 12:23:10.917: vmx| Vix: 69486 mainDispatch.c:3248: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=0, newAppState=1870, success=0
Nov 02 12:23:10.917: vmx| VMX idle exit
Nov 02 12:23:10.919: vmx| Vix: 69486 mainDispatch.c:599: VMAutomation_LateShutdown()
Nov 02 12:23:10.919: vmx| Vix: 69486 mainDispatch.c:549: VMAutomationCloseListenerSocket. Closing listener socket.
Nov 02 12:23:10.921: vmx| Flushing VMX VMDB connections
Nov 02 12:23:10.927: vmx| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads
Nov 02 12:23:10.927: vmx| VMX exit (0).

Re: Restoring vm in ESXi 4.0

4. Nov 2, 2009 3:12 PM in response to: raimundasjan
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DSTAVERT
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Nov 30, 2003
Remove the snapshot from the VM on ESXi 4 before you move it. How did you move the VM to ESXi 3.5

Re: Restoring vm in ESXi 4.0

5. Nov 2, 2009 9:59 PM in response to: DSTAVERT
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raimundasjan
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Nov 1, 2009
I have backed up guest vm in esxi 3.5 host with script to my local disk (the script has made snapshot of a running vm, copied *.vmdk, *.vmx, *.nvram, *.vmsd, *.vmxf and flat.vmdk files to my computer and deleted the snapshot) and then from my local disk i have uploaded entire directory to new esxi 4.0 host.

Re: Restoring vm in ESXi 4.0

6. Nov 10, 2009 1:10 AM in response to: raimundasjan
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raimundasjan
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Nov 1, 2009
thank you all for replys. I made transfer to another esxi host vm's powered off via copying all vm's files.

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