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JD7Mazda
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‎04-14-2011 11:53 AM

ESXi help

Hello,

I am new to ESXi and was having an issue with my current install. I had a config of ESXi 4.1 up and running with 1 VM WK2008. We had a 1.82TB datastore in a RAID 1 array that was accidentally cleared. Upon restoring the array the Host now says there needs to be a datastore/ there is no persistant storage. When i try to recreate the datastore with completely reformating it gives the following error

Error occurred in the vSphere client details: object refernce not set to an instance of an object. contact VMware support if necessary

I can see the VM on the left side of the Vsphere client but it is grayed out and says inaccesible. Any way to restore this?

I was also wondering if there was a way to get the VM files from the ESX host through SSH/WinSCP and just transfer it to a new datastore. If so where are these files located?

Any help is appreciated.

JD

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opbz
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Hot Shot
‎04-21-2011 02:27 PM

you see the VM greyed out because your ESX server knows it existed but if it was in the vmfs volumet that you lost then its gone. I would right click and remove from inventory.

adding your storage should be fairly easy.

first verify you can see the storage properly under storage adapters, do a rescan on the storage adaptor associated with the disk...

then under storage try to add storage should work...

if it does not then enter into management console and run fdisk -l

identify the the disk associated with it and then use fdisk /dec/sdX (x is the disk number associated with that storage lun)

then delete the partition

do a new rescan and try to create storage again..

be carefull with the delete partition... ensure you select correct disk

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