I have an IBM ThinkServer runnning ESX 4. There are 3 vitual machines installed on it, one of which is the active directory and file server.
The Windows server at some point in the day became unresponsive, after pinging and so on with no luck. I went to the ESX server, I was unable to login because after I typed the username, it sat there for a long time and didnt give the prompt for the password.
I then for reboot the ESX machine then notice some message about the RAID. I entered the RAID util and it did a Rebuild.
After all then, the ESX booted up and I then noticed that all the VMs were "Unknown"
I then checked the Storage (on the configuration tab) to find that one of the Datastorage is missing
I have searched all over the net and even in these forum but nothing I try helps.
Here is what I have tried so far
1. The esxcfg-volume -l command shows nothing as seen in the image below
2. When I broswer to the /vmfs/volumes directory using SSH of filezilla, then is what I see
3. When I try to do a mount, it doesnt which (I expected that because it unable to even list them)
4. Below is the output from the fdisk -lu command
| fdisk -lu output |
|---|
Disk /dev/sda: 10.7 GB, 10736369664 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders, total 20969472 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 2249099 1124518+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2249100 2474009 112455 fc VMware VMKCORE /dev/sda3 2474010 20964824 9245407+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 2474073 20964824 9245376 fb VMware VMFS Disk /dev/sdb: 468.9 GB, 468984004608 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 57017 cylinders, total 915984384 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 128 915978104 457988988+ fb VMware VMFS Disk /dev/sdc: 8250 MB, 8250195968 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1003 cylinders, total 16113664 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 63 1767149 883543+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc2 1767150 5863724 2048287+ 83 Linux /dev/sdc3 5863725 16113194 5124735 5 Extended /dev/sdc5 5863788 16113194 5124703+ 83 Linux |
4. I have also try the vmkfstools -V command but that also does nothing
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At this point, I dont know what to do and really need someone to point me in the right direction.
I dont want to loose that data that is there and would love to get this up and running again.