Import vdisks in ESX4

[uran24673]

Hello,

at first I'm an newbi here. Thanks! :smileygrin:

I have one problem. I have an esx 4.0, The maschine crashed with an hardwarefail.

But no problem was thinking, I habe an backup fron the virtual disks.

New maschine, with new ESX, uoload the vdisks to the datastore and Strart!

But now the problem. When I want wo make an new VM and i select exsiting disk. I'm not able to select the diskfile. But on the filesystem the file ist exsiting.

Any clue for me??

Best Regards

Uwe

[osha]

you can try to use the Converter to create the machine from the disk files.

i faced this problem before.But think there might also be other ways.

[uran24673]

Thanks, but unfortunatly not! becouse i have no access to the old server and on the new server i have only an copy of this files.....

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Which files did you upload?

Virtual machine disks in ESX consist of two files, the descriptor file <VMname>.vmdk and the data file <VMname>-flat.vmdk.

Can you attach a list of the files you have, and a screenshot of the datastore browser showing the files.

André

[uran24673]

Thanks for your anwer!!! You got me the right clue!!

my new maschiens had the same name as the old! and so the overwrite the metafile!

best regards uwe