Been using the free VSAN VM's on two ESX8 hosts as a homelab for a couple of weeks now without any problems and actually running real stable and fast.
Until today when we had a power issue at home and both servers were cut off the power at the same time. After the power was back I powered on the ESX hosts again and I tried starting the first (primary?) VM. This one booted and ended with the following message on screen.
Not sure what to do now. The reboot and default option will start the VM back to the same screen. Also tried the other options in Grub. The second VM on the other host has the same issue.Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or ^D to try again to boot into default mode.
The journalctl -xb option gives me a couple of red errors :
- Failed to find modile 'bfq'
- [sdc] No Caching mode page found (also for [sdb], but I think I saw this message when i WAS working aswell
- [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through (also for [sdb], but I think I saw this message when i WAS working aswell
- Failed to start Load Kernel Modules
- ip_local_port_range: prefer different parity for start/end values.
- piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: SMBus Host Controller nog enabled!
- Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\long_ID <<--- could this be the problem ?? I have nog issues with the disks
The ID mentioned is missing, but also can't find it in /dev/disk/by-* in any directory.
After a couple of lines it says it can't mount /mnt/disk2 <- An old disk I removed from the VM.
I previously had 3 disks mounted (via RDM in ESX), but removed the one (the disk2). After that had no problem rebooting the VM so not sure if that's an issue.
And if fixing is a problem, or no one has an idea ... Maybe someone knows how I can access the data on the drives ?
