Where is my data??
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:33 pm
Hello,
I have a test bed with ESX5 and Starwind 5.7.1733 Free Edition. I have one 2TB iSCSI target setup with VMFS5. My ESX server crashed and I restarted it. It lost the connection to the iSCSI server (Windows 2008 R2 Standard). When reconnecting the volume, the ESX server states that the hard disk is blank and wants to format the disk. I'm not sure what happened there but it seems like all my data is gone. How can I get it back, if possible?
Let me know.
So far I tried the following:
Unplug and Replug the drive from Starwind: unsuccessful
Mounted the disk to Windows to try to recover the data: unsuccessful as VMFS5 is using homebrewed GPT partition
I am a bit worried of this kind of issue has usually when a crash occur I don't lose anything.
Of course, it is a testbed and I can recreate the VMs inside but I would like to know what happened and if there is a way to fix it.
Thanks in advance.
I have a test bed with ESX5 and Starwind 5.7.1733 Free Edition. I have one 2TB iSCSI target setup with VMFS5. My ESX server crashed and I restarted it. It lost the connection to the iSCSI server (Windows 2008 R2 Standard). When reconnecting the volume, the ESX server states that the hard disk is blank and wants to format the disk. I'm not sure what happened there but it seems like all my data is gone. How can I get it back, if possible?
Let me know.
So far I tried the following:
Unplug and Replug the drive from Starwind: unsuccessful
Mounted the disk to Windows to try to recover the data: unsuccessful as VMFS5 is using homebrewed GPT partition
I am a bit worried of this kind of issue has usually when a crash occur I don't lose anything.
Of course, it is a testbed and I can recreate the VMs inside but I would like to know what happened and if there is a way to fix it.
Thanks in advance.