So, I have an odd one:
I'm setting up a small business virtual environment. Right now, I only have 2 servers involved:
Disk: 2012 R2 physical server that has a Dell SCSI array attached to it. It shared out those disks over iSCSI. I also have vSphere installed on there (not optimal, but it will work for a while)
Host: ESX 5.5 host with small business licensing on it. I have 2 VMs spun up, both 2012 R2, one a DC and the other a terminal server.
The Host machine sees the Disk's arrays via a cross over cable. Not great - but it works.
It was all setup and working fine, with the host looking at the iscsi disks on the Disk server, and the VMs running on the host. Then, I'm guessing we had a power outage at some point?
The disk server came back up fine. It sees the SCSI disks and has no errors.
The host came back up, but the VMs did not. They didn't have auto boot turned on. I booted them by hand.
My problem: both my VMs came up saying that the operating system can't be found, like the disk is missing?
- The disk is there an attached. I verified in vsphere and the config file
- The iscsi disks are mountable and I can browse and view all the files just fine
- I removed the VMs from inventory and readded, same problem.
- I removed the hard disks and readded them, same thing.
Its almost like both VMs lost their boot partitions or something? I boot the VMs into their BIOS, and they don't see the disks, even though they are attached.
Any thoughts on how to fix this? I just started, and could start over, but I"m concerned I have a bigger issue. I can't have this happen once these are in production.
Thanks!!!
