Hello forum,
i had bad luck trying to move a VM on an old ESXi 5.5 to a NFS Storage to consolidate the VMs to another server.
While i was working on the cables i accidently powered off the VM host. The "move" process was disrupted. I thought no problem - the files remain on the datasore1 as long as the file was not copied by 100%. Seems it got removed from datastore even when it was not moved by 100% to the NFS storage.
Of course i would not write here if i had a backup... shame on me.
Well i did some repair attempt on my own but it did not work out well.
What i have is a 21 GB flat.vmdk file which i copied back from NFS storage to the VMware host. The VM had originally a 250 GB provisioned harddisk. Now vSphere tells me it is thick provisioned eager zeroed.
Before i tried to move the vm folder i made a snapshot but it seems on try and error i removed the snapshot in the vSphere client - tho i still have 3 delta files, one which is quiet old and big with 54 GB in size. So maybe there is a chance to get a flat file restored out of all 3 delta files? If so, what are the steps?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
//mga