Fixing broken VMware vSphere 5 VMDK disk image
These are kind of "last resort" fixes if all normal ways fail to resolve problem. No guarantees. Worked for me...
- Make full backup of your virtual machine
- Logon to ESXi console
- Go to folder where your broken VM is located
- Check what vmkfstools thinks about image
- vmkfstools --fix check disk-s001.vmdk
- If your image requires repairing
- vmkfstools --fix repair disk-s001.vmdk
- Create new disk image from old one
- vmkfstools -i disk-s001.vmdk disk-new.vmdk
- Add disk-new.vmdk to virtual machine and hope it works now
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