Dear all,
Since Friday we have some drastic problems on our VMWare Infrastructure (3.5).
Situatuation: 2 ESX servers enterprise edition.
We needed to reboot one of the ESX servers. After reboot one datastore was not presented to the rebooted ESX, however there was still a mapping to the LUN in the storage adapter configuration. We noticed in the vmkernel log of the active ESX, there were some errors about the partition table. Since we don't want to lose any data, we started to shut down our environment and started copying all vmdk's. During the copy the datastore also dissappear / crashed on the active ESX, so now we cannot access the datastore anymore.
I think last solution will be the recovering of the lost partition (see http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1002281), however can somebody confirm we will not lose any data on the datastore?
Has somebody already executed this on a production environment?
Or can we in some way still copy the data from the datastore to an external device ? (most preferrable solution)
Thanks in advance !
Kenny