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R1tch
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Mounting a datastore to ESXi host

I've had a house fire and my old ESXi host hardware suffered enough that it powercycled continuously. The drives are seem to be perfectly fine though.

So house is rebuilt and I have new hardware (DL380 G7).

However my old hardware took 3.5" drives the DL380 takes 2.5" drives.

So the old VMs I had are on my 1TB SATA 3.5" which I cannot directly fit to the new equipment.

I do have a very nice USB SATA caddy though so I'm plugged all the bits in, stuck the drive in and powered up everything (including a shutdown and startup of the ESXi host).

This obviously has nothing to do with IOPS and speed this is purely rescue.

I am hoping that I can throw a few commands at my new machine to find the USB caddy (and subsequently the old VM datastore) so I can simply copy the old stuff to the new.

However I am not an infrastructure (I am trying to learn) so I haven't even got it to see the caddy yet.

I am happy to say I wasn't stupid enough to put precious things on the drive but over the years I have ripped my wifes and my own DVD/Bluray collection as well as our CDs and records.

Whilst I can do this again it has taken more years than i wish to admit.

Can someone direct me to some articles or knows the commands off by heart to rectify this woeful situation?

Thank you

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a_p_
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I'd suggest you try to contact continuum​. I'm pretty sure he'll be able to help you with this, by either extracting the data from the VMFS partition, presenting it as iSCSI target to the new ESXi host, or another option.


André

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Hi Richie
this sounds like it should be solvable.
If you are still looking for help download http://sanbarrow.com/livecds/moa64-nogui/MOA64-nogui-incl-src-111014-efi.iso

and call me via skype.
Ulli


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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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