ESXi 4 all VMs powered off deleted from the datastore

[Nikhil_Patwa]

Hello,

All my powered off VMs in the datastore have been deleted and only the powered on VMs are been shown in the datastore, but when I check the files there are only 2 files .vswp and .vmdk for every powered on VMs.

Is there a bug in ESXi 4 that deletes all VMs powered off from the datastore. I believe my datastore was almost out of disk space, the capacity is 1 TB and last when i checked the free space was arnd 100 GB.

I am worried as to where all my VM are and how it got deleted from the system.

[a_p_]

Nikhil,

this sounds too serious to waste any time.

You should immediately open a call with VMware!

André

[Nikhil_Patwa]

Hi Andre

I have already raised a call with VMWare. It's a very serious issue am facing.

I believe once the datastore runs out of disk space, it starts deleting VMs that are powered off thus creating free disk space.

Nikhil

[Nikhil_Patwa]

Looks like some bug in VMware ESXi 4, since then I have upgraded all my VM host servers to ESXi 4.1 and touch wood haven't faced the same situation again, now I also have vCenter Server thus all the reporting, alerts, warnings are handled by the vCenter Server, give me flexibility and also security.

Nikhil