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Enafets
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Losed all my datastore

Hi,

I losed all my SAN datastore of my ESX cluster ...

I was configuring my VCB proxy to save my VMDK file using SAN mode, so i mounted the ESX datastore to my Windows in "offline" mode

The disks are "black" (not blue as the system's one) and don't have the red alarm icon

EDIT : My VCB is a Windows 2003 Standard, and i used to work with Entreprise versions .... And the Standard one auto-signed new disks ...

I think this is what happened to my disks, i used the diskpart options to disable and scrub automount but may be too late ?

Now, in my ESX datastore, i can see my LUNs but they are unmounted

If i try to mount one, it tries to format it and can't use the same "name" as before because still existing

Is there a safe way to restore my datastore ?

(I'll give a call to HP Vmware Support tomorrow)

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continuum
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Try again with

LVM.enable Resignature = 1

set in advanced settings

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description of vmx-parameters:

VMware-liveCD:


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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Enafets
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I've allready tried this, no effect

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continuum
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Did you try it with exclusive access of one ESX only ?

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description of vmx-parameters:

VMware-liveCD:


________________________________________________
Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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Enafets
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Solved by VMware Support using fdisk commands

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