I had a disk fail on my esxi 6.5 with raid 6.
Rebuilt array and now getting this error on Dell r710.
Getting error loading /imgdb.tgz
Compressed MD5: 00000000000000000000000
Decompressed MD5: 00000000000000000000000000000
Fatal error: 10 (out of resources)
Is there a way to ideally repair esxi to boot?
Okay, solved sorta;
How:
- created a bootable 6.5 usb iso installer
- couldnt upgrade and perserve datastore (got same error missing file)
- tried install and preserve - but asked to re partition (scared me off that idea... as I have data on partition and partition is full disk size)
- so instead installed onto another usb
- booted successfully - and could browse to datastore and click on vmx and add as VM.
- I had custom names for nic groups - so made sure that was the same as before (comes up with a warning)
- I had to edit each vm and update network card to above named nic.
started each vm and magic it worked!
Hope me writing this helps someone else.
lesson for future - create partition on a drive or array just for vmware - so if this happens again you can just wipe partition and start vmware from scratch again without having to worry about datastores.
usb vmware for me for now - until I rebuild from scratch. gah.
Thanks.
Could you please try this kb: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2076105
You may have to consider to turn your bios in legacy mode for the operation
Okay, solved sorta;
How:
- created a bootable 6.5 usb iso installer
- couldnt upgrade and perserve datastore (got same error missing file)
- tried install and preserve - but asked to re partition (scared me off that idea... as I have data on partition and partition is full disk size)
- so instead installed onto another usb
- booted successfully - and could browse to datastore and click on vmx and add as VM.
- I had custom names for nic groups - so made sure that was the same as before (comes up with a warning)
- I had to edit each vm and update network card to above named nic.
started each vm and magic it worked!
Hope me writing this helps someone else.
lesson for future - create partition on a drive or array just for vmware - so if this happens again you can just wipe partition and start vmware from scratch again without having to worry about datastores.
usb vmware for me for now - until I rebuild from scratch. gah.
Thanks.