Hello.
I have a ESXi 5.5 Server. The Boot HDD crashed, red light is always on.
In the VSphere Client is the following Message: Connection to Device naa.6...., which the boot file-system contained /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600.... is lost. All changes on the host
will not store.
What can i do?
I buy a new HDD (SSD 32 byte) but if i connected it to the server it do nothing.
Best regards.
MCClane88
Sorry for my bad english.
Hello,
ESXi is a "stateless" system by design - it loads fully into the memory on boot and the changes are immediately packed to one single file that can change by admin interaction in the bootbank - state.tgz VMware KB: Locally restoring an ESXi configuration from state.tgz backup . If you are able to plug in the drive and boot from it, back up your state.tgz and restore it on the freshly reinstalled ESXi on the SSD. If you are not, I am sorry for your loss - your HDD is in silicon heaven now.
Was there any datastore on the failed disk? This will most likely be lost. You may just re-install ESXi 5.5 on the new SSD and try to mount the datastore(s).
No there is no datastore. All VM´s are on several NAS devices.
It is possible to install ESXi on another device and put the boot HDD into the server.
So the HDD has all partitions and so on.
Will this work?
Thanks for your advice.
I don't fully get your point here.
You may even install ESXi on a USB key if you like if that was your question. Or do you want to install ESXi on another PC/server ("another device") and then just swap the disk?
I would generally prefer to install ESXi on the server it will run on foir the correct drivers to be loaded at boot time/hardware detection.
You will then just need to recreate your inventory by configuring the VMs on the datastores on the NAS devices.
Not sure if that answers your question though ![]()
Hello,
ESXi is a "stateless" system by design - it loads fully into the memory on boot and the changes are immediately packed to one single file that can change by admin interaction in the bootbank - state.tgz VMware KB: Locally restoring an ESXi configuration from state.tgz backup . If you are able to plug in the drive and boot from it, back up your state.tgz and restore it on the freshly reinstalled ESXi on the SSD. If you are not, I am sorry for your loss - your HDD is in silicon heaven now.
Thanks for the Advice.
Good VMware KB article.
I saved the state.tgz, reinstall ESXi and than load the old config.
Can be close.
