I am looking for help with trying to restore/receover a VM with a corrupt (not recoverable) delta.vmdk file, the file was partially written over with other data.
No backups exist (a mistake during the attempt of a backup operation caused the corruption)
Background Info:
The VM has had snapshots taken in the past
The VM was shutdown normally to perform a cli manual backup operation on the file system.
VM has 2 disks inside of it
Esxi host is Vsphere 5.5
VM guest OS is windows 2008R2
It appears the corrupted delta file belongs to the first disk (the OS) FILE-Primary-000001-delta.vmdk
I understand I have lost some of the data from the disk "FILE-Primary.vmdk", I hope only from the time of the last snapshot being taken, around the May 09 time frame.
My hope is to be able to get the system restored with the FILE-Primary.vmdk having the data from the May 9th time frame and then the other disk "FILE-Primary_3.vmdk" up to the time the system was shutdown July 8th.
As an accidental VM admin, and the inability to get to Dell/VM support until probably tomorrow morning I am hoping to gain some insights from this forum.
Attachment contains the non-flat and non-delta files from the directory.
Thank you in advance of any insights and support provided.
John D
Error message during start up
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An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM FILE-Primary.
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module DiskEarly power on failed.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/6ac399c6-b1733377/FILE-Primary/FILE-Primary-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
One of the parameters supplied is invalid
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List of files in directory
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-rw-------. 1 root root 384624640 Jul 8 18:27 FILE-Primary-000001-delta.vmdk
-rw-------. 1 root root 327 Jun 15 13:39 FILE-Primary-000001.vmdk
-rw-------. 1 root root 8810139648 Jul 8 11:54 FILE-Primary_3-000001-delta.vmdk
-rw-------. 1 root root 333 Jun 15 13:39 FILE-Primary_3-000001.vmdk
-rw-------. 1 root root 1099511627776 May 9 02:29 FILE-Primary_3-flat.vmdk
-rw-------. 1 root root 554 May 9 01:58 FILE-Primary_3.vmdk
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 73 Jun 14 10:29 FILE-Primary-4dae1ab3.hlog
-rw-------. 1 root root 42949672960 May 9 02:29 FILE-Primary-flat.vmdk
-rw-------. 1 root root 8684 Jul 8 11:54 FILE-Primary.nvram
-rw-------. 1 root root 29079 May 9 02:32 FILE-Primary-Snapshot2.vmsn
-rw-------. 1 root root 550 May 9 01:58 FILE-Primary.vmdk
-rw-------. 1 root root 568 May 9 02:32 FILE-Primary.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3555 Jun 15 13:38 FILE-Primary.vmx
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4372 Jun 15 15:31 FILE-Primary.vmxf
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 396546 May 8 13:24 vmware-11.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 393369 May 9 02:30 vmware-12.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 281798 Jun 14 10:29 vmware-13.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 150976 Jun 14 10:29 vmware-14.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 279941 Jul 8 11:54 vmware-15.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 88918 Jul 9 04:19 vmware-16.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 88835 Jul 9 04:36 vmware.log
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