After SAN failure, one Windows 2008 server did not boot up (just black window in the console, no errors. SAN came back normally, hundreds of guests returned as well)
"Browse Datastore" or listing files via SSH show ridiculous sizes of the flat files (below)
"Edit settings" of the VM shows appropriate size. For instance, edit settings says HDD1 is 25GB, but SSH or datastore report 768TB. (LUN is only 1.5TB)
We have mixed ESX 3.5 & ESXi 4.0 & 4.1 hosts with vCenter 4.1. This guest OS is on ESXi 4.1 host. VM hardware ver 4, vmtools were up to date. Machine has been re-registered during troubleshooting. Vmdk files are intact with proper disk parameters.
Any way to recover flat files? (fsck or chkdisk equivalent?)
(Expected file sizes - 25GB, 3GB, 256GB, 256GB, 256GB & 200GB)
# ls -lh
total 528G
-rw------- 1 root root 3.0G Nov 27 16:19 windows-vm01_1-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 513 Nov 30 13:01 windows-vm01_1.vmdk
-rw------- 1 4294967288 1181808 12P Nov 29 20:14 windows-vm01_2-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 517 Nov 30 13:01 windows-vm01_2.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 256G Nov 29 18:37 windows-vm01_3-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 517 Nov 30 13:01 windows-vm01_3.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root 1186480 16E Nov 29 16:18 windows-vm01_4-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 517 Nov 30 13:01 windows-vm01_4.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 200G Nov 27 06:58 windows-vm01_5-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 517 Nov 30 13:01 windows-vm01_5.vmdk
-rw-rr 1 root root 13 Nov 30 15:07 windows-vm01-aux.xml
-rw------- 1 root root 768T Nov 29 20:16 windows-vm01-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 8.5K Nov 30 15:07 windows-vm01.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 513 Nov 30 15:51 windows-vm01.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 77 Nov 27 06:58 windows-vm01.vmsd
-rwx------ 1 root root 3.7K Nov 30 17:17 windows-vm01.vmx
-rw------- 1 root root 284 Nov 30 17:17 windows-vm01.vmxf
-rw-rr 1 root root 53K Nov 30 15:52 vmware-35.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 53K Nov 30 16:04 vmware-36.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 56K Nov 30 16:02 vmware-37.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 183K Nov 30 16:09 vmware-38.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 56K Nov 30 17:13 vmware-39.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 186K Nov 30 17:22 vmware-40.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 52K Nov 30 17:33 vmware.log
