We had a host failure over the weekend which involved recovering from our copied systems. It has worked fine on vmware vms ( 6.7) with single disk but we have a system that had two disks which can not find the boot disk.
Our method of backup is to
- copy the vmx file
- take a snapshot
- copy the flat file vmdisks ( not the sesparse ones)
- remove the snapshot.
The reason for snapshotting is to get round the device busy problem of copying an active disk file.
The copied files look like this
| perfweb-000001.vmdk | perfweb.nvram | perfweb.vmsd | perfweb_5-000001.vmdk perfweb_5.vmdk | |
| perfweb-flat.vmdk | perfweb.vmdk | perfweb.vmx | perfweb_5-flat.vmdk | vmware.log |
grep vmdk *vmx
scsi0:0.fileName = "perfweb_5.vmdk"
scsi0:1.fileName = "perfweb.vmdk"
more perfweb.vmdk
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
encoding="UTF-8"
CID=dfa4ef68
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="vmfs"
# Extent description
RW 536870912 VMFS "perfweb-flat.vmdk"
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
ddb.deletable = "true"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "33418"
ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.longContentID = "1bebe3a906b8671aad09f8aedfa4ef68"
ddb.thinProvisioned = "1"
ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 99 98 c6 0d ed-ae de 52 30 eb fd 14 5d"
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "14"
The only error I can see on power on in vmware.log is
DISK: failed to create nomad vob context.
and more signicantly
No operating system was found.
Any pointers what to try next would be greatly appreciated