Help.. datastores showing as empty...

[robkelley]

Hi

I have ESXi 3.5.0 110180.

Started having some problems when trying to create a new VM and it failed, I rebooted the host and now my iSCSI datastores have dissapeared but more importantly the local datastore is showing as empty when it should have approx 10 VM's in.

If I try and create a new folder it doesn't give an error but neither does it create the folder.

I has SSH'd onto the box and it also shows the VMFS datastore as empty, I know for a fact it isn't.

What can I check or do to get my local DS contents back?

Thanks

[VMrOxALL]

Hi,

It sounds like the VMFS partition table is corrupted.  Had there been an uexpected outage?  The same can happen weather the VMFS datastroe is local or remote storage.

This article should help determine if the partition table is corrupted and how to fix it.

http://www.virtualizationteam.com/virtualization-vmware/vmware-vi3-virtualization-vmware/vmware-esx-...

I hope this helps.

Jeremy

[robkelley]

Thanks, that fixed the corrupt PT but still no data and I still cannot create folders etc.

[VMrOxALL]

Did you reboot the hosts after you recreated the partition table?

~Jeremy

[DSTAVERT]

Don't add or change anything untill you get access to the data. Any changes you make could corrupt existing data.

[idle-jam]

i would suggest creating a vmware support call asap and let the expert fix it for you. any wrong steps made would the whole datastore useless.

[VMrOxALL]

Hi Robkelly,

I know this is a late post, but I'm curious to the outcome of resolving the datastore issue.  Were you able to solve it and what did you do?

~Jeremy