Re: OT: Vmware ESX image snapshots disappeared

From: Radioactive Frog (pbhatkoti@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2008 - 11:33:01 ARST


please disagree to my posting.......
I figured it out what I was missing....

I had to add an entry in the vnInventory.xml file:

frog
[root@base1 hostd]# cd /etc/vmware/hostd/
[root@base1 hostd]# ls
authorization.xml env hostsvc.xml pools.xml
bak.vmInventory.xml environments.xml hwInfo.xml vmAutoStart.xml
config.xml esxinfo.vha key.pub vmInventory.xml
[root@base1 hostd]#
[root@base1 hostd]# cat vmInventory.xml
<ConfigRoot>
  <ConfigEntry id="0001">
    <objID>32</objID>
    <vmxCfgPath>/vmfs/volumes/46e0a712-bbef98d6-a7e3-0002a54d0f36/Unity
4.0/Unity 4.0.vmx</vmxCfgPath>
  </ConfigEntry>
  <ConfigEntry id="0002">
    <objID>48</objID>

<vmxCfgPath>/vmfs/volumes/46e0a712-bbef98d6-a7e3-0002a54d0f36/cucm6/cucm6.vmx</vmxCfgPath>
  </ConfigEntry>

 <ConfigEntry id="0003">
    <objID>64</objID>

<vmxCfgPath>/vmfs/volumes/46e0a712-bbef98d6-a7e3-0002a54d0f36/ccm1/ccm1.vmx</vmxCfgPath>
  </ConfigEntry>
</ConfigRoot>
[root@base1 hostd]#
[root@base1 hostd]#

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Radioactive Frog <pbhatkoti@gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry for OT but I am stucked as I don't see ESX snapshots images anymore
> from my vmware GUI interface.
>
> My ESX server version 3.0.1 dies last week. I have managed to restore it. I
> can see full data is in the hard disk with all vmware and configuration
> files with all snapshots are in /vmfs/volume/ folder
> I had to rebuild this server so now when I create any vmware disk, it only
> boots basic image and it won't show any snapshots.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Cheers
> -Frog

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