Hello,
We are using VMWARE ESXi and have a VM that just crashed.
If you look at the attached screenshot of our VMWARE setup, you'll notice I have opened up DATASTORE1. Inside the SQL VM you will see the following files.
SQL_1.vmdk is 500GB. This is where our SQLVM DB is located. The missing file is SQL_0.vmdk which was about 3.48 GB and that contains our Boot disk. Without the boot disk we cannot boot into the VM and extract anything from SQL_1.vmdk.
Client version: 1.23.0
Client build number: 6506686
ESXi version: 6.5.0
ESXi build number: 7388607
Are we out of luck here? Is it possible to plug in another SSD (1TB) and create a new Datastore to create a new VM and move the SQL_1.vmdk after a new Boot disk is created? Would that work?
I thought I would get on the forums here and ask a guru until we can get our support connect with VMWARE direct. THANK YOU for any and all replies.
Jim