Import from a ESXi-Disk without running ESXi

[ferengie]

Hello,

a lightning destroyed my complete IT-Infra.

I started with PROXMOX and I wanted to import the data from my old ESXi disks.
The old hardware is destroyed so i have no "old ESXi-Infra" anymore.

My idea was to add the old ESXi-Disks to the new PROXMOX-Infra and import the data direct.

I can see the ESXi-Disk under the menue disks in PM but I am not able to mount them in any way that I can create a directory to access the vmdk-files.

I tried:
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/mount-vmfs-datastore-in-linux-windows-esxi/
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/moving-from-esxi-to-pve-with-an-existing-zfs-pool.117679/


Is there a way to get the data from the old ESXi disks?

Best Regards
Ferengie

 

[bbgeek17]

Hi @ferengie , welcome to the forum.

This seems like a good google search query to use "access vmdk file from vmfs in linux"
First result seems promising: https://www.diskinternals.com/vmfs-recovery/how-to-access-vmfs-datastore-linux-esxi-windows/

Good luck

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[ferengie]

Hi,

thx @bbgeek17 - i have tried: vmfs-tools already with no success
:-(

i tried to install ESXi in a PM-VM and it worked, then I tried to mount the pyhsical disk using this atricle:
https://dannyda.com/2020/08/26/how-to-passthrough-hdd-ssd-physical-disks-to-vm-on-proxmox-vepve/

Adding already worked, now I have to try to "find the SSD in my ESXi"

edit:
When i try to add another SCSI-Disk (from the PM) to my ESXi, it is not available ...
strange

Best Regards
Ferengie