Hi Guys,
I have a serious issue with one VM running on ESX 3.5 U2. The VM was migrated from the local datastore to a remote iSCSI storage. During this tranfer ESX removed all the large files (snapshots) including the main vmdk.
Now my VM looks like that and obviously does not restart:
total 910M
-rw------- 1 root root 80M Aug 4 17:21 ExchangeSrvBM-000007-delta.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 243 Aug 4 17:20 ExchangeSrvBM-000007.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 816M Aug 4 19:51 ExchangeSrvBM-000008-delta.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 243 Aug 4 17:20 ExchangeSrvBM-000008.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 8.5K Aug 4 17:20 ExchangeSrvBM.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 2.6K Aug 4 19:49 ExchangeSrvBM.vmsd
-rw-rr 1 root root 1.8K Aug 4 19:51 ExchangeSrvBM.vmx
-rw------- 1 root root 268 Aug 4 17:21 ExchangeSrvBM.vmxf
-rw-rr 1 root root 136K Aug 4 17:20 vmware-10.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 157K Aug 4 17:20 vmware-11.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 292K Aug 4 17:20 vmware-12.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 28K Aug 4 19:51 vmware-13.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 329K Aug 4 17:20 vmware-8.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 71K Aug 4 17:20 vmware-9.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 28K Aug 4 20:00 vmware.log
-r----
1 root root 5.0M Aug 4 19:57 vmware-vmx-zdump.000
Do you know how I could recover the lost files from the original datastore? Is there any tool VMWare or Linux tools to "find" the deleted files? For info it's running on a Dell 2900.
Thank you very much for all your advices.
Bastien
