I have a server running Esxi4.0, today due to some electrical maintenance I had to shut it down. I shut down each vm through Vcenter and then put the server in maintenance mode and shut it down. Once the work was done, I powered it on, and since Vcenter is a vm on another box that was also off, I tried to access Esxi through the VIC, however it kept timing out, but eventually I was able to get in. Through the VIC I took the server out of maintenance mode and then attempted to modify the first hard drive on three vm's, two are running server 2008R2 (no service pack) and one was running server 2008 32bit. I was able to modify the first hard drive on the 2008 32 bit server only, the other two, when I went into modify the first hard drive, was greyed out. I thought perhaps this was because I was uing the VIC and so I powered up the server running Vcenter and attempted to the same through Vcenter, but again the drives were greyed out.
All the serves are virutal machine version 7, the disks are all provisioned at thick, I could find no difference between the 2008 32 bit vm and the other two to explain this behvaviour. Vcenter is running the requisite 4.0 verison.
Does anyone have an explanation?
Thanks
AM
