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esxi 6.5 Datastore disappeared after update raid configuration

short summary of the history of the datastore
this esxi have 3 datastore
datastore 1 - 500 gb (raid0)
datastore 2 - 4TB (raid 10)
datastore 3 - 8TB (raid1)


short summary of the events that caused the corruption
i've updated raid configuration to swap datastore 2 with larger volume group, after i upgrade disk
datastore 3 was missing and cannot detect LUN

i try to follow this topic
http://vmwareinsight.com/Articles/2018/3/5802942/How-to-create-corrupt-or-missing-VMFS-Partition-tab...
esxi was saw vmfs partition but cannot mount datastore and can't see any snapshot


- if you accidentaly deleted a vmdk - please add the size and guestOS
datastore 3 have vmdk size around 5 tb that mount with vm in datastore2

 

I've uploaded datastore dump here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uX5hRlx2bpVooNhINcAR5HFWTOHdC88-/view

 

my contact information
zadine89@gmail.com
skype : live:bunanan.s

please help me to recover my lost datastore

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Why do you upload dumpfiles without further communication ? - who do you think would look into it ?

 

Maybe recoverable "FServer-PC_1-flat.vmdk" about 5632gb in size - but that vmdk appartently had 3 snapshots and was expanded while it had snapshots - no comment .....

Maybe recoverable FServer-PC-flat.vmdk about 442gb

Dump does not have the VMFS magic number - so either the raid-operation completely failed or the dump was created with obscure parameters.

Does not even register as VMFS-volume ....

Anyway - you uploaded that a week ago so I assume case is closed already.

 

Ulli


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