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andrzejs78
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ESXi 5.5 U1 Crash - metadata error.

Hi,


I have a problem with my ESXi 5.5 U1 because my server crash scored in vmkernel.log I metadata errors by which I can not run any virtual machine.

Is there a tool that will allow the like fsck for VMFS-5 to scan for errors and fix them?

The following log of ESXi.

ls -la

ls: ./VM_Debian-000001.vmdk: No such file or directory

total 114939112

drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          3500 Dec 15 13:28 .

drwxr-xr-t    1 root     root          6020 Dec 15 00:26 ..

-rw-------    1 root     root     6174265344 Oct 15  2013 VM_Debian-000001-delta.vmdk

-rw-------    1 root     root     21626081280 Apr 11  2014 VM_Debian-000002-delta.vmdk

vmkernel.log:

2014-12-15T09:35:20.200Z cpu1:34235)WARNING: Res3: 3590: Volume 4ff718f3-7047d886-e0fe-00259056c007 ("datastore1") might be damaged on the disk. Resource cluster metadata corruption has been detected.

2014-12-15T09:35:20.200Z cpu1:34235)WARNING: [type 1] Inconsistency between bitmap (125) and freeResources (66) (cluster 38835).

2014-12-15T09:35:20.200Z cpu1:34235)WARNING: Res3: 3590: Volume 4ff718f3-7047d886-e0fe-00259056c007 ("datastore1") might be damaged on the disk. Resource cluster metadata corruption has been detected.

2014-12-15T09:35:20.200Z cpu1:34235)WARNING: [type 1] Inconsistency between bitmap (125) and freeResources (66) (cluster 38836).

Best Regards.

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continuum
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I would suggest to try extracting the vmdks with the help of a Linux LiveCD using vmfs-fuse.


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
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andrzejs78
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I considered it but more as a last resort.
Is there a way to scan and fix VMFS datastore?
I do not see 4 TB of data and unpack now so the more that some files can not see and I can not unpack.

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andrzejs78
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vmfs-fuse not working properly.

Output ls -l in folder with VM file size instead of showing me "??????"

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