How to fix orphaned virtual machine
October 6, 2008 by John Tran · 7 Comments
If one of your virtual machines become orphaned do the following to get it online.
- Launch Virtual Center or Virtual Client
- Right click on the orphaned virtual machine
- Select ‘Remove from Inventory’
- Now select the host that you would like the VM to reside on
- Then click on the Configuration Tab
- Under the Hardware Pane located on the left, click on Storage
- You should see on the right all the Datastores
- Now double click on the Datastore where the Virtual Machine VMX file resides, this will launch the ‘Datastore Browser’
- Now locate the VMX file.
- Right click on the file and choose ‘Add to Inventory’
- Go through the wizard and your Virtual Machine should appear online again.
that`s work, resolve the problem. good!!!
Awsome.
This works.
thank, the problem was resolved
Great stuff ! Thank you John
Great stuff. Worked well.
Thanks a lot , John. It worked and my problem’s solved.
Good deal what if the orphaned VM is the SQL server housing my VCenter database. If I drop it from inventory will it drop my connection to VCenter? I see it when I logon to the host and it appears up and fine. any help greatly appreciated.