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    <title>topic Re: Restore VM from flat and delta .vmdk files in ESXi Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;any help is welcome, I appreciate you use some of your time for trying to help me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The 3rd .vmdk is a old drive that got deleted, the file is no more existing too. the .vmx is set for not check for that disk, and that worked well.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is all I did:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- manually backep up the full folder of my VM , that you can see in the previous reply's attached file.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- Replaced 6 HDD with 6 SSD inside the Server.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- Uploaded back the full data of the VM.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Tried to Power On, but error that cannot find file&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;NCDeploy-000001.vmdk and&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy_2-000001.vmdk.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Inside the folder i had:&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy-000001.-flatvmdk ,&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy_2-000001-flat.vmdk ,&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy-000001-delta.vmdk ,&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy_2-000001-delta.vmdk and the other files in pic.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I did rebuild descriptor file pointing on those files using vmkfstools and vi using SSH.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;VM did power ON but on a old state, so I think it didn't attach the delta files .&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I have all the backup of before swap disks on my HDD.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I'm not an expert, i saw someone suggested to use fakedisk and attach , but I don't really know how to fix this problem.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Thanks again for trying to help me&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Regards,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Mirko&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:45:21 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>cuti92</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2023-02-02T15:45:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Restore VM from flat and delta .vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Restore-VM-from-flat-and-delta-vmdk-files/m-p/2952114#M286384</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Hello VMware community. I use VMware ESXI vSphere Client 5.5.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I've changed the Hard Disks of my Server , before doing that I did take a backup of all files in Data, replaced the disks and recovered the files.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I have now flat and delta files ( 2 and 2 cause it's a VM with 2 local disk drives )&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;if I try to run the VM it will show error with dependencies or descriptor.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;the files are really big ( 34gb , 41gb , 80gb , 159gb ) so I can't really upload those.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;if it can help I can upload .vmx file&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I have the full backup of the VM in my computer, so i'd like to work outside of the esxi but like in vmware workstation and when successfully recovered, i'll re-upload in my server .&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class=""&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I will be&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class=""&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;grateful for any help.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:39:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>cuti92</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-02-02T10:39:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Restore VM from flat and delta .vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Restore-VM-from-flat-and-delta-vmdk-files/m-p/2952132#M286385</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;If you have a backup - so where is a problem? you can restore VM from backup.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;vmx file should be also in vm datastore folder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:07:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>maksym007</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-02-02T12:07:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Restore VM from flat and delta .vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Restore-VM-from-flat-and-delta-vmdk-files/m-p/2952139#M286386</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;thanks for your reply.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a manual backup of flies from Data , i'll attack a jpeg of all the files i have and how the VM was set, cause it's not powering on&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I don't know how, but I have only Data folder, Datastore folder is missing now..&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:30:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>cuti92</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-02-02T12:30:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Restore VM from flat and delta .vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Restore-VM-from-flat-and-delta-vmdk-files/m-p/2952148#M286387</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Hi,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I admit to being a little ignorant about your specific problem but, reading your ".vmx" file, something doesn't add up:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"&lt;BR /&gt;scsi0:0.fileName = "NCDeploy-000001.vmdk"&lt;BR /&gt;scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;scsi0:1.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"&lt;BR /&gt;scsi0:1.fileName = "NCDeploy_2-000001.vmdk"&lt;BR /&gt;scsi0:1.present = "true"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;scsi0:2.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"&lt;BR /&gt;scsi0:2.fileName = "NCDeploy_3-000001.vmdk"&lt;BR /&gt;scsi0:2.present = "FALSE"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I have the impression that you (or someone else) have taken a snapshot some time ago an then, and at a later time, edited that configuration file and then deleted some file by hand without first making sure having a valid (working) backup. That "data" it's not a "folder", it's the name of your datastore whose content, in a folder, shoul be the whole of your virtual machine.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Long story short, if you want someone to try and help you, and there are no guarantees, you need to be more specific in describing everything you did or happened.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Regards,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Ferdinando&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:05:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Kinnison</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-02-02T13:05:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Restore VM from flat and delta .vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Restore-VM-from-flat-and-delta-vmdk-files/m-p/2952206#M286392</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;any help is welcome, I appreciate you use some of your time for trying to help me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The 3rd .vmdk is a old drive that got deleted, the file is no more existing too. the .vmx is set for not check for that disk, and that worked well.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is all I did:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- manually backep up the full folder of my VM , that you can see in the previous reply's attached file.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- Replaced 6 HDD with 6 SSD inside the Server.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- Uploaded back the full data of the VM.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Tried to Power On, but error that cannot find file&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;NCDeploy-000001.vmdk and&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy_2-000001.vmdk.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Inside the folder i had:&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy-000001.-flatvmdk ,&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy_2-000001-flat.vmdk ,&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy-000001-delta.vmdk ,&amp;nbsp;NCDeploy_2-000001-delta.vmdk and the other files in pic.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I did rebuild descriptor file pointing on those files using vmkfstools and vi using SSH.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;VM did power ON but on a old state, so I think it didn't attach the delta files .&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I have all the backup of before swap disks on my HDD.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I'm not an expert, i saw someone suggested to use fakedisk and attach , but I don't really know how to fix this problem.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Thanks again for trying to help me&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Regards,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Mirko&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:45:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Restore-VM-from-flat-and-delta-vmdk-files/m-p/2952206#M286392</guid>
      <dc:creator>cuti92</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-02-02T15:45:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Restore VM from flat and delta .vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Restore-VM-from-flat-and-delta-vmdk-files/m-p/2952221#M286394</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I did rebuild descriptor file pointing on those files using vmkfstools and vi using SSH.&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; VM did power ON but on a old state, so I think it didn't attach the delta files .&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Seems you only rebuilt the descriptor for the base disk, but not for the snapshots.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;To see what needs to be done, please run &lt;EM&gt;ls -lisa &amp;gt; filelist.txt&lt;/EM&gt; in the VM's folder for a complete file listing, then compress/zip &lt;EM&gt;filelist.txt&lt;/EM&gt;, the recreated &lt;EM&gt;.vmdk&lt;/EM&gt; descriptor files, the &lt;EM&gt;.vmsd&lt;/EM&gt; file, and the &lt;EM&gt;.vmx&lt;/EM&gt; file, and attach the &lt;EM&gt;.zip&lt;/EM&gt; archive to your next reply.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Since - from what I understand - you powered on the VM from the base disks, I'd recommend that you restore the flat files again to avoid possible guest OS data corruption.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;André&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>a_p_</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-02-02T16:37:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Restore VM from flat and delta .vmdk files</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Restore-VM-from-flat-and-delta-vmdk-files/m-p/2952235#M286400</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Hi,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;At this point, follow &lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/173652"&gt;@a_p_&lt;/a&gt;'s directions, but avoid saying you have a "full backup" otherwise you would have recovered the "file descriptors" files in a few minutes and would not have had "the problem". As I told you, for certain things I'm a little bit ignorant, but only up to a certain point.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://communities.vmware.com/html/@F39A924BD6342F6112FBAC6AD391E474/emoticons/1f923.png" alt=":rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:" title=":rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Regards,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Ferdinando&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:24:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Kinnison</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-02-02T17:24:19Z</dc:date>
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