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mrlizard08
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Disks Get Replaced?

I have a really strange problem that has affected two VM's so far.  We have a single host setup with ESXI and a VMWare Essentials license.  The ESXI version is 7.0.2 and its installed on a HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9, there are 5 VM's, 4 windows and 1 linux.  The problem started last around last Sunday, for some reason all of the disks on the VM were replaced with 40 GB disks that didn't exist anywhere.  When you tried to turn on the VM it would give a getfileattributes error.  I was able to remove those disks then re-add the original VMDK, but whenever this happened it corrupted the OS, so I had to restore from back up.  Then today, at some point early in the morning I'm guessing, the same thing happened to another VM.  Luckily this time it wasn't corrupted, so I was able to add the VMDK back and it booted up.  Both affected machines were windows if it matters. 

Has anyone seen this before?  Does ESXI have any logs I can check?  I checked the events under monitor but they don't go back far enough.  I've gotta get this figured soon cause if it affects the SQL server like it did the first one, we are gonna be in a world of hurt waiting on a restore.

One other thing, I don't know if it matters, but we use an Acronis appliance (thats the linux VM) with a Virtual Host License.  It backs up the machines at the VM level, or in other words it doesn't need an agent installed on any of the OS's

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