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Recover deleted VMDK files
Hello! I had some problems on my server and accidentally deleted some VMDK files (Two, actualy, from 00001 and 00002 snapshots), like that thread below.Can you recover an accidentally deleted VMDK...
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VSphere Data Protection Version 6.1.6.10 gives Flash Error
I just uploaded the ova file for VSphere Data Protection Version 6.1.6.10. It's giving me the Flash error: To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash play version 10.0.0.0 is installed. Adobe Flash...
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Error: A backup/restore/verification activity did not start within the...
Hello guys..I'm having this problem for almost 30 days and I can't make a backup if I want.I already tried to do the procedure to connect via SSH and run the command: mccli event ack --include=22631...
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Accidentally deleted .vmdk, anyway to recover the files?
Hi all, I have a VMWare EXi 6.5 server with 3 data HDDs and 1 SSD containing my linux VM. I used the entire usable area of the 3 x HDDs to create VMFS partitions and then passed over to my Linux VM...
View Articleesxi vmdk file not found
Hi I tried to make a backup of my virtual machine and something went wrong.When I try to run my virtual machine I have the message below.It is in French but it tells that he cannot find the file HASP...
View ArticleESX vmfs deleted
Hello everyone,I am in a dire need of some assistance! My tech and I was having an issue restoring an Exchange VM (something to do with VSS) and not enough space on the datastore. We decided to free...
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Inaccessible VM's after power outage, volume id missing
We recently had a power outage and upon restore of power and start of ESXi (6.5) a number of VM's now show as inaccessible in vSphere Client: When I SSH into the server and list the volumes I do not...
View ArticleBackups within vSphere and the VDDK Version - where is it used?
Hey there, i've got a customer who get the VDDK Error 14009 and i found this KB referring to this problem:VMware Knowledge Base Since it states that the VDDK should be upgraded, i assume this KB is...
View ArticleHP ProLiant with vSphere 5.5 both drives in a RAID1 volume failed, backup...
Hi all,after a power cycle, two drives of a RAID1 volume will no longer spin-up. vSphere Management Assitant and VMware vCenter Server Appliance are still available because located on another volume....
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datastore wih no UUID or vmfs label but has vmfs partition
I have a esxi 5.5 host with 2 raid 10 arrays. Each was mounted as a datastore. We had a drive go bad. replaced and it rebuilt, but when the host came up only one datastore was there. The partition...
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How to fix a seeming monolithic vmdk?
For a couple of years we used bareos with vmware plugin as our backup system. A few days ago due to an accident we lost our office DC completely. For this case the plugin is capable of restoring...
View Articlevmx and vmdk missing
Hello, I have a server running under vSphere 6.5, I tried running it but it shows an error telling that vmx is missing, the display name of the machine has changed...
View ArticleBackup VM
Hi All, We're using vSphere 6.5, and VMware Workstation 15 to managed the VMs. Could I use VMware Workstation to backup our VMs by exporting to OVF file? Any recommendation? Thank you..
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consolidate virtual machine disk files the operation is not allowed in the...
Hello Guys, I Have a VM on ESXI That I don't use anymore but i only need the files on the VMDISK. So i export the vmdk file. I just need the existing files. When I opened the disc I found only old...
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Entire folder of VM dissapeared from datastore.
Dear all, An entire folder with its contents dissapeared from the datastore after an unplanned restart. This is an ESXi 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 5969303) and the datastore is VMFS5. Other folders of other...
View ArticleError when exporting OVF template
Hi guys, I have a need to backup vApp environments for archiving purposes. I had the solution to export the vApp as a whole using the OVF template function. This worked for me during testing however...
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ESXI 6.7: Raid5 Rebuild - Datastore Gone
Hi, I had an error with the RAID5 and a rebuild was in order leading to ESXI 6.7.0 Update 1 (Build 10302608) not finding any datastore anymore.I can see a large VMFS partition in the ESXI WebClient...
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Problem starting VM after problems witz snapshots and consolidation
OBJLIB-FILEBE : FileBEIoctl: ioctl operation failed on '/vmfs/volumes/577bd84d-10ac566a-84e9-a0369f8fe39c/Jobserver NEU/Jobserver NEU_1-000011-sesparse.vmdk' : Inappropriate ioctl for device (1638402)
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Failed to power on virtual machine Centos7. Unable to enumerate all disks.
Hi, can anyone please help me fixing this. the error shows up after I deleted the Centos7-000002.vmdk manually at datastore browser.now I can't open the VM and I can't restore the snapshots. is there...
View ArticleCopied VM issue
Hi, I used vSphere client to download a vm. I upload the vm into another host and tried to boot it up but got an error (error below). Only then I realise that the actual vm has snapshots. When I...
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Cloning a vm from command line whilst keeping the vm running
Hi, I'm trying to backup esxi vms from cli not using snapshots. We have several vms which run tests round the clock and so downtime needs to be limited. Environment is ESXi 6.7.0 and vsphere 6.7.0 From...
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Disk consolidation needed: How to fix it manually?
Hi there I've got a big (2.5TB) legacy server in an old data center that I need to move to our new data center. I have almost no knowledge about the infrastructure in our old data center and it seems...
View ArticleThe specified key, name, or identifier 'xxxxx' already exists
Hi, I have restored a VM (Files) with NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager onto my vsphere 6.7 environment, but when i'm trying to register the VM it says: The specified key, name, or identifier 'xxxxx'...
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ERROR CLDELSN3, details: [lon-d-squid] error: cannot delete snapshot
hi all, got an error on one of my vms when trying to back it up using a backup solution called XSiBackup, the thing is it backs up all my other running vms, just this one all the time generates an...
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VCENTER 6.7 : Snapshot on VM : too many files : consolidate failed
Hello,I can't consolidate the snapshots."Because the files are locked".What happen ?How to fix it ?Regards,M. Kerrec
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esxi free backup solutions - api locked
hi all, does anyone know of any good free backup solutions for the free version of esxi API locked its for my home test lab, so all i have is the free version thanks,rob
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Unable to mount VMFS after rebuilding partition table
Hello All, I am currently working on the issue with two vmfs files that were wiped when a raid card was swapped. So far I have rebuilt the partition table on the drive and can see the partition from...
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ESXi Missing Files in Multiple Datastores
Hello All, We have an issue with two of our datastores. Both datastores have two disks in them. After moving our server, we booted the machine (unknowingly) with one of the drives disconnected. I've...
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Non-Persistent Disk - Recovery from redo log file
Hi, We have a situation where a disk was incorrectly configured as independent non-persistent .Disk setting was modified and made as dependent and as obvious changes were lost. We need to recover...
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Recovered VMs - Can't read disk
Hello, I have several VMs that were recovered from VMFS and put onto a Windows USB Drive (NTFS). I moved the files off of the USB drive back onto the ESXi server. I started the VM using Workstation,...
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BACKUP EXEC v16 cannot connect vcenter 7.0 or esxi 7.0
HiAfter upgrading to VMware 7.0, Backup exec 16 cannot connect to neither ESXi hosts nor VCenetre server. The error messages are "The server was unable to complete the requested operation." and...
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Acronis Backup Failed ESX host backup
When I try to backup my Esxi host. Only one of them give an error, others are OK. The following error has occurred while executing the backup script: 'Traceback (most recent call last):For details...
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Connection error during installing vdp
hello alli faced problem during install vdp.t he error is this: the connection test did not complete successfully.modify your network setting for vcenter credentiali add new user to my domain and give...
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Corrupted VMDK flat file, how im can attach or extract contents?
Dear members im try to attach my flat vmdk file but vmware cannot open or show a error how im can attach vmdk in machine or extract contents? ThanksAlmir
View ArticleFailed to read from disk. Error Code 14009 – The server refused connection
Hello, I've got 1 out of 4 hosts that are giving the below error when trying to backup VM's within Altaro, I've already spoken to Altaro support who have mentioned this is a VMWare issue. "The...
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lost datastore
Hi Expert, i powered down a vm trying to move to another datastore. but all the sudden after shutting down the vm, the datastore is just disappeared right in front of me & the vm showed...
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vSphere 6 Essential Kits Plus license VDP destination recovered
Hi. Does the vSphere 6 Essential Kits Plus license come with 2TB VDP for backups? We have ESX01 and ESX02 clustered and a storage array. If we buy an ESX03 outside the cluster ethernet connection and...
View ArticleHow to get more info on what is happening during a snapshot deletion.
I have two identical VMs each with three disks.When they are backed up, a snapshot is created, they are backed up and then the snapshot is deleted.One of the VMs the snapshot deletion takes 2 seconds,...
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Datastore is missing after reboot
Hi all, I built a new ESXi 6.5 with RAID6 local storage and configured host cache. I migrated VMs from old hardware server to this new built. The ESXi was frozen and responded. I rebooted the ESXi...
View ArticleVCSA 7.0 Backup and Restore via OVA
I recently bought vSphere Essentials Kit 7.0, and installed ESXi 7.0 and deployed the VCSA onto a new Dell server. I will be moving the production VMs off of my existing free ESXi 6.0 hosts to the new...
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How is file copied from ESX to VM via VMTools
So I am working on an issue which involves File Restore from a backup solution to a VMware VM. The connection between Backup appliance and VM is not available directly so it speaks to ESX via 443 and...
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VMware: Virtual Data Protection (VDP) Backup job stop after start
Dear All,Good day to all of you. My apologies that im newbie in VDP backup on VMWare. I have an issue on my VDP (virtual data protection) backup that the backup job suddenly stop. Kindly see the...
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recovery of 2 disk, single snapshot system failed
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...
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Unable to get copied disk to automatically boot
Hi, I'm having a difficult time getting a copied vmx and vmdk running Ubuntu on Vmware 6.7 (esxi and vsphere) to boot.Registering the vm by pointing at the vmx file fails and I have to drop down to EFI...
View ArticleRecovering deleted VM
Dear continuum, Need your help here, My colleague accidentally deleted two important VMs from data store on IBM SAN. We are not writing anything new on those, tried disk internals, no luck. Please...
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VMDK manual conolidation
I got hit by ransomware and during the decryption process that disk got full and the VM stopped and couldn't;t start with an error related to the disk. I wanted to expand the size of the disk but...
View Articlebasic VM backup
Good morningI have a little Dell server for home lab running ESXi and 5 VM (Windows server, Windows 10, Ubuntu, etc.)Sometime I need to backup VM, usually when I perform changes, and usually I export...
View ArticleImport-vApp
HiWe backup VMs with PS script.When I shall try to restore a VM in Powershell with Import-vApp I just get athis error, what is the problem? PS C:\Users\a-serveradmin1> $myCluster = Get-Cluster -Name...
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Guest machine disk locates on two volumes. Can not correctly migrate it.
Guys, good afternoon. Question to the pros. In General, a couple of weeks ago, one of the hosts (5..1) in the cluster died. And one of the guest workstation didn't move.(BSS_IIS)I created a new guest...
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Device driver was not successfully installed; network connections not restored?
Hello all, I restored a backup of virtual machines from Acronis bootable media. I created a virtual hard disk and loaded it to vSphere and opened the VM. Upon booting and logging in, I am not able to...
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