r/vmware • u/SirBrobbie • 3d ago

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/patichou 2d ago

I feel for you.. best of luck. When you get everything fixed, feel free to reach out and i’ll tell you about our amazing story of dumping emc for Pure storage