Hi All,
First post here but I am tearing my hair out trying to sort this out.
A server I look after suffered a failure on one of the drives in a RAID 6 array.
The first we knew of it (server is at a remote site) was the VM's would not start and they both show the .vmx files inaccessible they are stored on a datastore called Data_Store
Its a local disk on Esxi Server
Replaced the failed drive in the array and then let it rebuild, but still the VM's failed to load.
They still showed the same as in the image above.
I checked the Storage adapters and the disk with the datastore is there and mounted
I trolled the net and Vmware communities and tried alot of different things like doing Re-Scans and various esxcli commands show the datastore is there but none of them have gotten back my data store.
I tried Add Storage from the configuration tab
It can see the disk...but the only option is format not keep the existing data
Here are some more screen shots showing the volume and such.
I am really sorry for the long winded post and images but I am extremely frustrated and have had this dumped in my lap.
If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul