Hello
I'm just new here...
My esx admin is in vacation and I think I made a big mistake ...
we have a esx 3.5 ( not esxi )
after a power issue, the esx restarted, but I had no more management network working ( vm were started and working no issues )
I was able from the console to ping the IP , but nothing remotetly.
I gave a call to my esx manager and he told me to reinstall esx , as it is a known issue on our old server,
Thing that I missed, is that there was no difference for me between esx and esxi
I download the esxi and resintalled it
the problem is that now I have a nice formated partition with an esxi running, but no more vmfs partition available as esxi reformated everything
Here is for the story
Does anyone knows how I can recover the old vmfs ? at least transfer the files to another hosts and reinstall again ... Just to save the VMs ??
Thx in advance
I would file an SR and call VMware support. Don't do anything that could endanger things further.
Problem, this is an old one, we don't bought the support for the 3.5 ...
Only for the 4.0 ...
we were planning to migrate the VM between Xmas and 31st...
Note: Thread moved to ESX 3.5 forum, after duplicate post and a discussion with the OP.
I would still make the call.
I did, this is how I learned that we did not renew the support for the old VM
I would pay the per incident fee if you can't come up with some other way to include this host in your current contract.