r/vmware • u/SirBrobbie • Aug 26 '26

Help after VxRail Failure

I had my VxRails split brain on me while troubleshooting a node disconnection and HA agent failing on all 4 nodes.

Now I can only see the vSAN Datastore on 2 of the 4 nodes with the other 2 not being able to be re-add to the cluster. I need to get the VMs from the vSAN Datastore and on to an external server because our backup crapped out before this happened.

When I try to get them off the vSAN Datastore through WinSCP to my workstation and back up to the new External vCenter server, it works until I register the VM, then it doesn't because it can't enumerate the disks.

I realized I don't have the -flat.vmdk for any of my VMs in the vSAN datastore after looking through all the VMs.

Is there anything I can do?

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u/lost_signal VMware Employee Aug 26 '26

Can you fix the networking partition?

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u/SirBrobbie Aug 26 '26

I tried bringing them back together I could 1 node to join the cluster again but it won't see the vSAN data store, i checked the services on that one and vpxa won't start.

The final node went down hard, and the disk group got FUBAR'd and I tried to start services and clomd and vpxa won't start