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desaster description | chances | trickiness | suggested procedure |
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cannot resume moved VM (CPU-messages) | like hard reboot |
very easy | remove *.vmss or disable cpu-compat-test |
cannot start (in-use or locked messages) | very easy | remove stale lockdirs/lockfiles | |
descriptor vmdk is lost | good | easy | use sample from list restore entries from last log see howto |
vmx is lost |
good | very easy | restore from last log |
embedded descriptor is lost |
unknown | average | use sample from list restore entries from log see howto inject with dsfi.exe |
basedisk is lost - only snapshots are left |
restore | advanced | fake basedisk mount with vdk restore data |
parent has been changed |
depends | average | fix CID-chain |
parent has been changed - embedded descriptor |
depends | average | extract with dsfo.exe fix CID-chain inject with dsfi.exe |
parent has been expanded |
depends | very advanced | cut fix geometry fix CID-chain |
parent has been expanded - embedded descriptor |
depends | very,very advanced | extract with dsfo.exe cut fix geometry fix CID-chain inject with dsfi.exe |
one or more flat chunks of a "twoGbMaxExtentFlat" -disk is missing |
restore | average | fake chunks mount with vdk |
one or more sparse chunks of a "twoGbMaxExtentSparse" - disk is missing |
restore | advanced | fake chunks mount with vdk |
"monolithicSparse" is too small after running out of disk-space |
restore | advanced | copy to location with disk-space Plan B restore data |
one or more chunks of a "twoGbMaxExtentFlat" is too small after running out of disk-space |
restore | advanced | copy to location with disk-space expand mount with vdk restore data |
"monolithicFlat" is too small after running out of disk-space |
restore | advanced | copy to location with disk-space expand mount with vdk restore data |
one or more chunks of a "twoGbMaxExtentSparse" is too small after running out of disk-space |
restore | advanced | copy to location with disk-space Plan B restore data |
disk has holes (needs repair) | restore | advanced | mount with vdk restore data |
messed up original VM after starting a Copy - and deleting the Copy |
bad | very advanced | restore still usable branches |
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