VM got corrupted, any chance of saving this?

[Red Squirrel]

I had a power related issue where my UPS did not trip fast enough and some servers including my VM server took a hit from a power flicker. So basically stuff went down hard.

Running ESXi and managed to restore most of my VMs except one that is showing up as "Unknoiwn 20003 (invalid)"

I removed it, then re-added it to inventory, but it still shows up that way.

I presume the VMDK is corrupt. Anything I can do to perhaps restore it, or is it pretty much done for? I have an image of the OS somewhere but still hoping not to have to resort to having to rebuild it. It might be something simple that I'm overlooking.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Got it working!

Basically I just created a new VM then re-attached the old VMDK file to it and it booted up!

As far as I can tell it works, but it's a VPN server, so I'll only know once I'm off my network and can test it. But given I can SSH into it and such chances are it's good.

Had to fiddle around with some stuff to get Linux to recognize the "new" nic though.

 

[XavierMace]

Why didn't you restore from backups?

 

[Red Squirrel]

That was my last resort, I was hoping to avoid that.