Dear Team,
I have VMware 6.5 ESXi host in my environment. I would like to discuss with VMware expertise regarding my issues.
Following are Environment Structure.
- Datastore1 is 500GB and we have 4-VMs running on it.
- Datastore2 (Data Drive 19TB) in which users data are available.
- The disk is configured as the Thin provision with 2 part ion.
- D drive
- E drive
Following action were taken
Error
- Snapshot was failed.
- After that Hdd was filled with whole 18TB
- There was vmdk.-01
- After that created new vmdk files saying vmdk.2
- After that it created one more vmdk files saying vmdk3
- Consolidation warning occurred
- I Tried consolidation and the consolidation was failed
Action taken by us
- Due to this was our domain controller Server we wanted to start the server we downloaded the vmdk3 file and after that we booted the server.
- After server was started, we lost some data and I noticed the server moved 1week before.
- After that try upload the vmdk.3 file which we have took the backup on the data store. And tried to consolidate again
- Luckily Consolidation was successful but the data was not available and also the vmdk.3 files was not combined with the (Core Almas Domain Controller_1.vmdk,,Core Almas Domain Controller_1-000001.vmdk)
- Trial purpose I was having the all the vmdk file and we tried in our test server to get consolidate those vmdk files but we were unsuccessful for doing that.
Current Status
- 1. Server has now two vmdk files
- 2. Core Almas Domain Controller_1.vmdk (hdd status is full)
- 3. Core Almas Domain Controller_1-000001.vmdk ( hdd status not full)
Required VMware Expertise Feedback
- Does this issue can be resolved?
- Can we consolidate all the Hdd?
- Can we make the server in a normal position back?
- We need the data backup it really important for us.
Please let me know ASAP with the solution If you guys can fix than I can log a case in Vmware and take the support from you genius guys.
