Hi all
We have a single server running ESXi 5.1, that runs a couple of vms. The server have 2 disks, one with some small virtual disks and one 1tb disk that contains a single virtual disk. We wanted to rename the disk, but messed up badly. Lets say we wanted to rename from “Test disk” to “Disk2”.
We first renamed the flat file. mv “Test disk-flat.vmdk” “Disk2.vmdk” as you can see we forgot to add the –flat to the disk2 name.
Then we renamed the vmdk file. mv “Test disk.vmdk” “Disk2.vmdk” and because we forgot the –flat in the first move command we accidently deleted the flat file.
As you can see this are only move commands, so no data was actually deleted. So are there any way we can restore the flat file, all data is still there since we turned off the machine the second we realized what we had done.
Any input is greatly appreciated
Best regards
Mads