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Big_Banana
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ESXi missing folder after power loss

Had a storm locally and both UPS's separately serving my HP D2600 redundant power supplies tanked. I rebooted everything to have one VM guest complain about a missing .VMDK file.

My datastore on the D2600 has folders for each of the guests, which contain the bootable "disk" images.  All of these are fine.  There is an additional folder that I kept the disk image for my file server main share drive.  Sure enough, that folder is gone.  Verified through vSphere client and Putty. 

Help??

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Big_Banana
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Gave up and figured I would recreate the VMDK and then restore from backups.  When I went to make it, ESXi said 650GB was the max size I could make.  The old one drive was ~16TB.  So I assume that old folder/file is still around somewhere???

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Looks like I was on the wrong UUID.  Doh.  Man enough to admit my mistake!

Now I need to find out why I can see the P420i but not hte atatched D2600.

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