Hi,
I am having a big issue.
There was a Ubuntu 8.04 Server guest installed on VMWare ESXi 4.1
It was a VM of 200GB size.
Since, it was running on 99% full i tried to increase the size using
vmkfstools -X 210G /vmfs/datastore1/LinuxServer/LinuxServer.vmdk
But then it started giving the error,
"Failed to open (The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created)."
We had hell of a data on the VM, and the admin had not backed up any of them.
And to top these, the guy who created the VM has installed Ubuntu on LVM.(
)
Then i noticed that in the Settings of the VM, the HDD was pointed to a delta vmdk like LinuxServer-000001-delta.vmdk(81GB)
but the main file seemed to be LinuxServer-flat.vmdk(210GB).
To try boot the machine again i messed up all the CIDs, now i dont know which is what.
On a last try, i tried creating another VM pointed to the flat vmdk.
Which seems to boot properly, but lots of file went missing.
Is there a way to recover the data using the delta vmdk??
Please help anyone.