Gold found guys, gold Found!. You saved me! Yet the video is 8 years old. The VM booted after recreating the missing VMDKs. How I deleted them in the first place is still a mystery. Thank you!!
This is a very well produced video. Not only did it help my solve my problem, but the additional pop-up windows within the video with helpful information (such as the vi commands) helped save me time from having to perform secondary (and tertiary) research, which usually distracts from the original issue at hand. Thank you so very much!
Thank you very much for this video, you will never know how this video just saved me, i had accidentally deleted the vmdk file of our accounting server and by following the instructions i was able to restore the machine and it works again. once again a big thank you. you are the BEEEEEESSSSSST💯💯💯
I followed the steps. I see the VMDK in the Datastore Browser. However, I ran the vmkfstools -e "example".vmdk command. It came back as a failure to open disk link. The system cannot find the file specified. Disk chain is not consistent. Any tips?
Ok Seriously All I have is VMWare Workstation. I have no access to ESXi. I need to fix this VMDK as a home user? I tried vmware-vdiskmanager and I get an error about missing descriptor. Please help?
apparently the disk in question was SATA, the machine does not list any scsi devices. Therefore, the "less *.vmx | grep -i virtualdev" bit yields no controller info.
Does this process need vmx file to be there already ? Cuz my vmdk & vmx files are missing and I have only flat.vmdk left after I removed my vm from the inventory.
Please, help out here. Though the VM started up fine; unlike before that it keep asking for the missing vmdx file but this time around, its asking for OS. This vm vmdx file that turned virtual machine file type to flat file was working before. I wouldn't know what made it go flat. I really, really want to old vm as there are some legacy software with licence running on it.
Really nice video! But what if you don't find the flat file neither? Very strange. Even the directory where my VM points to is not there in the /vmfs/volumes. I can find 2 other vmdk files and their corresponding flat files. But I can't tell my VM to use 1 of these. I can't even edit settings of my VM anymore, it always gives me an unexpected error happened. So my flat file is not really orphaned. What should i do? It's a ESXi6.5 without vcenter (i only have 1 vm)
i have Windows 10 x64-s001.vmdk and Windows 10 x64-s002.vmdk and Windows 10 x64-s003.vmdk... and Windows 10 x64-s016.vmdk but i lost Windows 10 x64.vmdk, so i can not open the virtual disk in vmware player could you tell me how to create Windows 10 x64.vmdk file?
How is the procedure if my virtual disk have snapshots and the lost file is a descriptor file of a delta files? Excelent video!!! Thank you very much!!!
I accidentally deleted `Ubuntu-disk1.vmdk` from `C:\Users\anum.sheraz\Documents\Virtual Machines\Ubuntu\ ` . Now I don't have any file with `.vmdk` extension in my VM directory. I see you have TestVM-000001-flat.vmdk. What do I do ?
vmkfstools -e FARONICSNEW.vmdk Failed to open disk link /vmfs/volumes/532d99ba-53b03550-485a-78e3b50e760c/Faronics/FARONICSNEW.vmdk :The file specified is not a virtual disk (15)Disk chain is not consistent : The file specified is not a virtual disk (15)
Hey man, thank you so much! But in my case, I have a snapshot and I lost the descriptors files the both. How Do you recreate the descriptor files about main disk and the sesparse disk? Somebody help me?
Worked awesome for me. I was stressing! Steps I needed to do in addition were... F2 Physically on the local server and allow ssh. I waited a day after the vmkfstools -e "example".vmdk failed. It worked the next day and the server booted up.
Почему вообще это происходит? Перезагрузил хост и виртуальная машина не запускается - причем с железом все ок! И "отличное" решение подключаться по ssh и править ручками :( И это коммерческий софт :))
after all these years there is no inbuilt repair tool that is automated for the simple lock and vmdk descriptor issue.... that's really disappointing. seeks the open source community is going to catch up then this product will be worthless.
Gold found guys, gold Found!. You saved me! Yet the video is 8 years old. The VM booted after recreating the missing VMDKs. How I deleted them in the first place is still a mystery. Thank you!!
This is a very well produced video. Not only did it help my solve my problem, but the additional pop-up windows within the video with helpful information (such as the vi commands) helped save me time from having to perform secondary (and tertiary) research, which usually distracts from the original issue at hand. Thank you so very much!
i don't have words to say thanks for this video. Really saved my almost 2 years of Hard work.
como lo has hecho morito
Thank you very much for this video, you will never know how this video just saved me, i had accidentally deleted the vmdk file of our accounting server and by following the instructions i was able to restore the machine and it works again. once again a big thank you. you are the BEEEEEESSSSSST💯💯💯
This video saved our company.
thumbs up
I followed the steps. I see the VMDK in the Datastore Browser. However, I ran the vmkfstools -e "example".vmdk command. It came back as a failure to open disk link. The system cannot find the file specified. Disk chain is not consistent.
Any tips?
So, is it possible to do the same thing from the command line, in Windows 10? I have access to the files but not through ESXI
Real hero!! Thank you, Sir.
Ok Seriously All I have is VMWare Workstation. I have no access to ESXi. I need to fix this VMDK as a home user? I tried vmware-vdiskmanager and I get an error about missing descriptor. Please help?
You are my hero !!! 1000 thanks you saved me !!!
Thanks, this works from a to z, it's a superb manual for solving this problem !
You save my life man thanks a lot
Oof. Good thing I found a backup of the file. This whole command line process is too complicated for a Windows peasant like me.
What a life saver team @netcomp are very happy
THANK YOU!!! Life saver!
apparently the disk in question was SATA, the machine does not list any scsi devices. Therefore, the "less *.vmx | grep -i virtualdev" bit yields no controller info.
Does this process need vmx file to be there already ? Cuz my vmdk & vmx files are missing and I have only flat.vmdk left after I removed my vm from the inventory.
Worked awesome for me ,thanks for this guide
saved our career ..
Worked splendidly, thanks much for putting it to video.
what about vmware fusion? these files like ..-flat.vmdk are not there
how to find the ESXI commandline???
You saved my day. Thanks!
Please, help out here. Though the VM started up fine; unlike before that it keep asking for the missing vmdx file but this time around, its asking for OS. This vm vmdx file that turned virtual machine file type to flat file was working before. I wouldn't know what made it go flat. I really, really want to old vm as there are some legacy software with licence running on it.
Really nice video! But what if you don't find the flat file neither? Very strange. Even the directory where my VM points to is not there in the /vmfs/volumes. I can find 2 other vmdk files and their corresponding flat files. But I can't tell my VM to use 1 of these. I can't even edit settings of my VM anymore, it always gives me an unexpected error happened. So my flat file is not really orphaned. What should i do? It's a ESXi6.5 without vcenter (i only have 1 vm)
Thank you so much!!! Very very usefull!! Sos un Dios!!
i have Windows 10 x64-s001.vmdk and Windows 10 x64-s002.vmdk and Windows 10 x64-s003.vmdk... and Windows 10 x64-s016.vmdk
but i lost Windows 10 x64.vmdk, so i can not open the virtual disk in vmware player
could you tell me how to create Windows 10 x64.vmdk file?
Thanks for your video. Can i convert thick provisioned to thin provisioned with adding a line ddb.thinProvisioned = "1" to vmdk file?
How is the procedure if my virtual disk have snapshots and the lost file is a descriptor file of a delta files? Excelent video!!! Thank you very much!!!
It worked for me.....thanks
Thank you very much, this works perfect.
I accidentally deleted `Ubuntu-disk1.vmdk` from `C:\Users\anum.sheraz\Documents\Virtual Machines\Ubuntu\ ` . Now I don't have any file with `.vmdk` extension in my VM directory. I see you have TestVM-000001-flat.vmdk. What do I do ?
vmkfstools -e FARONICSNEW.vmdk
Failed to open disk link /vmfs/volumes/532d99ba-53b03550-485a-78e3b50e760c/Faronics/FARONICSNEW.vmdk :The file specified is not a virtual disk (15)Disk chain is not consistent : The file specified is not a virtual disk (15)
me too 🥲
Saved the day! Thank you
thanks so much! works like charm :)
Graaaaciaaaassss ❤
Hey man, thank you so much! But in my case, I have a snapshot and I lost the descriptors files the both. How Do you recreate the descriptor files about main disk and the sesparse disk? Somebody help me?
Hi, i have the same issue, did you manage to resolve this issue?
Very helpful. It resolved the issue.
Thank you for this great job! This was really helpful.
Thank you, This is very good video.
Excelente me funciono a la perfección.Gracias!!!!
Thank god she has such a soothing voice.
Worked awesome for me. I was stressing! Steps I needed to do in addition were... F2 Physically on the local server and allow ssh. I waited a day after the vmkfstools -e "example".vmdk failed. It worked the next day and the server booted up.
your a life saver
Life saver. Thanks
Apres la regeneration du fichier vmdk la partition est devenue raw est ce que quelqu'un à une idée??
thank you. :)
Hey, you really saved me :D great guide!
It's work for me..
thank you, you save so many people man !!!
And what about windows guide? I have WM in my local computer host
very useful, it works
A very good video! Thanks for putting it together, it saved us from loads of hardwork!
Life Saver today
perfect, thanks.
Thank you.
and how do you get into the command line? brilliant video. don't assume anything.
You install putty on your PC & then enable SSH on your ESX host server via the security tab in VCenter.
Thank you! Really helpful for me!
wonderfull
work for me!
Почему вообще это происходит? Перезагрузил хост и виртуальная машина не запускается - причем с железом все ок! И "отличное" решение подключаться по ssh и править ручками :( И это коммерческий софт :))
wow. saved my bacon. !
after all these years there is no inbuilt repair tool that is automated for the simple lock and vmdk descriptor issue.... that's really disappointing. seeks the open source community is going to catch up then this product will be worthless.
worked
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