Ha!
After a reboot of the server the chain is now clean/consisten - tho the VM boots but the bootloader is not able to start the Linux system as it is missing files.
/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS # vmkfstools -e -v10 Nuvola\ Cloud\ VPS-000004.vmdk
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000004-delta.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 516096, hd = 27104. Type 8
DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "Nuvola Cloud VPS-000004-delta.vmdk" (0xe)
DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000004.vmdk' (0xe): vmfsSparse, 524288000 sectors / 250 GB.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000003-delta.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 516096, hd = 27105. Type 8
DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "Nuvola Cloud VPS-000003-delta.vmdk" (0xe)
DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000003.vmdk' (0xe): vmfsSparse, 524288000 sectors / 250 GB.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000002-delta.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 17293312, hd = 27106. Type 8
DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "Nuvola Cloud VPS-000002-delta.vmdk" (0xe)
DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000002.vmdk' (0xe): vmfsSparse, 524288000 sectors / 250 GB.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000001-delta.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 56153858048, hd = 27107. Type 8
DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "Nuvola Cloud VPS-000001-delta.vmdk" (0xe)
DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000001.vmdk' (0xe): vmfsSparse, 524288000 sectors / 250 GB.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-flat.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 268435456000, hd = 27108. Type 3
DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "Nuvola Cloud VPS-flat.vmdk" (0xe)
DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS.vmdk' (0xe): vmfs, 524288000 sectors / 250 GB.
DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain: numLinks = 5, numSubChains = 1
DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(0) fid = 27108, extentType = 2
DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(1) fid = 27107, extentType = 0
DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(2) fid = 27106, extentType = 0
DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(3) fid = 27105, extentType = 0
DISKLIB-CHAINESX : ChainESXOpenSubChain:(4) fid = 27104, extentType = 0
DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000004.vmdk" (flags 0xe, type vmfs).
Disk chain is consistent.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000004-delta.vmdk" : closed.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000003-delta.vmdk" : closed.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000002-delta.vmdk" : closed.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-000001-delta.vmdk" : closed.
DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS/Nuvola Cloud VPS-flat.vmdk" : closed.
AIOMGR-S : stat o=5 r=15 w=0 i=0 br=245760 bw=0
AIOMGR-U : stat o=6 r=4 w=0 i=11 br=8192 bw=0
OBJLIB-LIB : ObjLib cleanup done.
/vmfs/volumes/53daa82a-ce8997b8-ddd9-0015c5f16c2c/Nuvola_Cloud_VPS #
But it may be a 1st step towards getting some data restored somehow.
Any further ideas?
Regards,
//mga