Hi,
We're coming out of the other side of a RAID failure which took a number of machines with it. I'm trying to restore one particular machine which was replicated offsite using SRM. Unfortunately I can't recover the usual way as the Protection Status is 'Not Configured' and I'm unable to reprotect as the connection state is 'inaccessible'. See below:
Unable to protect VM 'FTP' due to non-protectable connection state 'inaccessible'. The VM must be properly connected before it can be protected.
This machine wasn't backed up either. Lessons have been learnt.
So, I've since discovered that the VMDK for this machine is sitting in a folder on a datastore on the DR side. However, there's no vmx file attached and I've tried to recreate the VM using the standard vm settings but it's bluescreening on boot:
Sadly, I'm unable to F8 to CHKDSK but I'm thinking this is more to do with a configuration issue on the vm side rather than the OS side. Possibly due to the machine version (which was 7) and we're now running 8 and above, the CPU / RAM setup etc? I'm not even sure if it's a 32 or 64bit OS.
Is there anything I can do to get this working?