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    <title>topic Re: Deleted vmx and vmdk files in ESXi Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Deleted-vmx-and-vmdk-files/m-p/2870593#M278354</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Not a real problem.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Create a new VM and name it _New with the same specs.. but no vDisks&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Recreate the missing descriptor like in KB &lt;A href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1026353" target="_blank"&gt;https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1026353&lt;/A&gt; or &lt;A href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76600" target="_blank"&gt;https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76600&lt;/A&gt; . Hint i do it always in the following way: Create a Dummy VM with the vDisk with the same size and scsi controller. Than i copy the dummy descriptor into the right place and edit the content.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;BR /&gt;Joerg&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:51:22 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>IRIX201110141</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2021-10-06T21:51:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Deleted vmx and vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Deleted-vmx-and-vmdk-files/m-p/2870539#M278344</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;So I did a very dumb thing...&amp;nbsp; I had a VM that was renamed to a different name, and when I saw this old host in the datastore, I tried to delete it.&amp;nbsp; Since the VM is running, the flat files did not get deleted thankfully, and the VM is currently still up and running, but the vmx and vmdk files are gone.&amp;nbsp; If this VM shuts down, it will not turn back on again.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;My question is, what can I do with the VM will it's still up and running?&amp;nbsp; It is a domain controller, so I am worried about simply doing a backup and restore, which I think could cause something to break on the OS level.&amp;nbsp; I have seen some suggestions about creating a new VM with the same characteristics and then using the resulting vmx and vmdk files, which I am willing to try.&amp;nbsp; I can also go to Advanced settings and see a lot of the parameters in the settings.&amp;nbsp; I am just nervous about turning this host off and never getting it back!!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'll appreciate anyone's brilliant insights.&amp;nbsp; Thank you!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:57:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>joeblo1</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-10-06T16:57:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Deleted vmx and vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Deleted-vmx-and-vmdk-files/m-p/2870543#M278345</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;If it's only a DC, why not just blow it away and build a new one? Does it have some FSMO roles or run some other services?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I guess you don't have a VM-level backup.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:01:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>scott28tt</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-10-06T17:01:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Deleted vmx and vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Deleted-vmx-and-vmdk-files/m-p/2870547#M278346</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;There is other stuff on here too, like our 2FA agent and DFS services.&amp;nbsp; It's not the end of the world if i have to start over, but ideally I just replace these files.&amp;nbsp; We have cloud based backups that use an Acronis agent.&amp;nbsp; I don't know if that qualifies as VM level or not, but I have options to restore to VM or physical server, which implies to me that some hardware IDs on a VM level would change if I tried to do a restore&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:13:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>joeblo1</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-10-06T17:13:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Deleted vmx and vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Deleted-vmx-and-vmdk-files/m-p/2870593#M278354</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Not a real problem.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Create a new VM and name it _New with the same specs.. but no vDisks&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Recreate the missing descriptor like in KB &lt;A href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1026353" target="_blank"&gt;https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1026353&lt;/A&gt; or &lt;A href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76600" target="_blank"&gt;https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76600&lt;/A&gt; . Hint i do it always in the following way: Create a Dummy VM with the vDisk with the same size and scsi controller. Than i copy the dummy descriptor into the right place and edit the content.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;BR /&gt;Joerg&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:51:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>IRIX201110141</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-10-06T21:51:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Deleted vmx and vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Deleted-vmx-and-vmdk-files/m-p/2870790#M278375</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thank you.&amp;nbsp; I've done largely as you've suggested already and waiting for the weekend to turn the host off and on again to make sure all is well.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I followed this KB:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1002511" target="_blank"&gt;https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1002511&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;which appears to be the manual equivalent of what the script in your KB does, which would've been nice to have come across first.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;One thing I've also done since i have a running VM was to get the UUID from the host and replace the reproduced vmx file with the original uuid.&amp;nbsp; I don't know if a new windows guid would have hurt anything, but I feel it's a good thing to preserve if I have the opportunity.&amp;nbsp; I followed these instructions for that:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.teimouri.net/find-convert-compare-vmware-virtual-machine-windows-guest-uuid/" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.teimouri.net/find-convert-compare-vmware-virtual-machine-windows-guest-uuid/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 15:34:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Deleted-vmx-and-vmdk-files/m-p/2870790#M278375</guid>
      <dc:creator>joeblo1</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-10-07T15:34:03Z</dc:date>
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