Thursday, May 28, 2009

Enable SSH for VMware ESX and get access to your virtual machines

You've deleted virtual appliance with 'remove' or simply pressed 'delete'? Congratulations! Now you have no access to "not_needed" virtual machine (VM) but the disk space is still used..
To remove/restore/whatever_else VM from disk you may:
do it manually (like a God - always without mistakes):
  1. Enable ssh access on VMware ESX 3i
  2. Login to ESX server
  3. Explore /vmfs/volumes/datastore. Your VM is there.
Or use Datastore Browser- utility bundkled with VmWare Infrastructure client:
  1. Select the VmWare ESX server host
  2. Go to tab Summary -> Resources -> Datastore -> double click on your datastore

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