What's half dead mean? Can you get in to the vsphere client and do anything? Are the guest images on the same drive array as the the ESX Boot partition?
________________________________ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi fun This seems intriguing, but nontrivial to setup... http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html In this case restore may be faster. Or, if you have an alternate server available, restore concurrent with messing with above. Good luck! On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: As some of you may have noticed, I'm currently engaged in a battle with a half-dead ESXi box....I'm on the verge of restoring from backup, but one last try.... Does anyone know if there is any way to copy the virtual machine files from the ESXi "tech support mode" console onto, say, a USB drive, or somewhere else I might be able to load them onto a fresh ESXi install (this is because I'm betting ESXi doesn't support USB removable drives, although I am happy to be proved wrong)? The server isn't getting onto the network and there's no shared storage so it would have to be a "local" solution of some kind. I'm at a new job so as I'm such a quiet guy I am not usually keen to ask too many questions of as-yet-unfamiliar co-workers, so I'm leaning on the old faithful mailing list pretty heavy here :-) If no joy, I'll be pulling out the first backup tape I've ever touched in a long, long time.... TIA, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
