Hi,
Need ASAP help. I'm not a VM expert by any means.
Had a power outage, some VMs on my ESXi 6.5 did not boot up after the host powered back up (were not set to auto). My AD integration was broken AND my root password stopped working a few weeks ago. I did not have a chance to address it. This morning I tried unsupported methods of resetting the root password with no luck. After a few hours I decided to reinstall ESXi, was originally 6.5, but I decided to install 6.7 (ESXi build number: 13006603). During the install I could see both datastores from the previous install. I Installed ESXi on the same instillation datastore as the previous install, leaving alone the other 26TB datasore. Now I can see both datastores if browse to Storage then Devices, but only see the system datastore under Datastores. I need to add (or mount) the 26TB datastore back to the host without formatting it, to hopefully be able to register the VMs on the host.
I looked everywhere and cannot find an article with my specific situation.
Please help.