VMWARE crash on HP ESxi

[jdatwood]

HP Proliant DL380 Gen 9

ESXi VMWARE 6.0

Hello,  I can't attach an image on the forums here but perhaps someone will understand what I am talking about.  With our VMWARE setup, you'll notice I have opened up DATASTORE1.  Inside the SQL VM you will see the following files.

SQL_1.vmdk is 500GB.  This is where our SQLVM DB is located.  The missing file is SQL_0.vmdk which was about 3.48 GB and that contains our Boot disk.  Without the boot disk we cannot boot into the VM and extract anything from SQL_1.vmdk.

So the question is whether we can actually access that SQL_1.vmdk file by creating a new VM and moving it over? ( Thus we need the new SSD in there ).  OR, we are out of luck.  

Thank you!

Jim

[jdatwood]

Actually these are the specs of our software.

Client version:  1.23.0

Client build number:  6506686

ESXi version:  6.5.0

ESXi build number:  7388607