Restore VM

[steff70]

Hello

I have a Dell Server with 2 HDD inside: one is 1 TB HDD hosting some VM's. One of these VM is a Ubuntu running just as a NAS.

NAS storage is inside a second HDD attached to the Ubuntu VM as a RAW DEVICE.

Now... the 1 TB HDD is broken, but I have a copy of the .vmx and .vmdk

I have to replace the disk, install ESXi, then... how can I create again the Ubuntu VM starting from vmx and vmdk and attach again the raw device?

Thanks

[continuum]

> how can I create again the Ubuntu VM starting from vmx and vmdk and attach again the raw device?

Ignore the vmdk. Create new VM and attach the existing raw device.

[steff70]

Yes, but I would like to avoid to rebuild from scratch the VM.... 

the VM has two disk, one with Ubuntu and the second as raw device with data.