Help - Snapshots

[homerjnick]

Not related to Veeam as such but can anyone help?

I accidentally removed a disk that had a snapshot from a VM...I wanted to add it to another server but I should have consolidated it by deleting the snapshot first...when I re-added it it doesn't recognise the snapshot disk is there, just the primary one...how do I add the disk back to the server with the snapshot disk included?

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Nick,

I'm not 100% sure it will work, but you may want to edit existing VMX file to restore virtual disk->snapshot chain. I cannot provide you with exact instructions, but this topic should give you a basic idea of how to accomplish it: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/313679

Hope this helps!

[homerjnick]

Spookily enough the guy Andre who posted the fix on that issue has responded to my post in the VMWare forums just now...so here is hoping...

[Vitaliy S.]

Good luck, but don't forget to create a backup of this VM before applying any changes to VMX file.

[homerjnick]

All sorted..had to edit the disk descriptor VMDK files and reference the new CID of the parent disk in the snapshotted disk and then boot and run CHKDSK...