I have a test VMWare environment that uses a separate iSCSI server for storage, it works great for testing new servers and getting different environments up. Problems arise though whenever there’s a power outage, the server running VMWare comes on automatically but the iSCSI server needs to be booted manually. This causes problems with the images stored on the iSCSI server, they show as being disconnected. So what needs to be done is to re-connect them so they can be started up. It isn’t a difficult process but it did freak me out a little the first time I had to do it.
Basically the disconnected server needs to be deleted the added back into vSphere:
- Right click the disconnected image and select Remove from Inventory. Do not select Delete from Disk, this will delete all files….very bad!!
- From the Navigation bar select Datastores
- Browse the Datastore, find the .vmx file associated with the VM image
- Right click the file and select Add to inventory
That’s all there is too it, simple to do just a little concerning that the image needs to be deleted from inventory before it can be added back in. If you know of a different way of doing this please leave a comment.
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