Now head over to the vSphere client, right-click on the VM and click on Guest OS – Install VMware Tools and proceed by clicking on Mount (Make sure the VM does have a virtual CDROM drive).Just to verify that no disks are existent before:.Solution is basically very easy, I’ve done it that way:
(Apparently I was so clever to let PXE take care about this when deploying new virtual machines, so I didn’t even think about it anymore.) Wondering why? Me too! After a good hint from a friend I realized that I’m using VMware PVSCSI for my virtual disks.
However diskpart showed: ' There are no fixed disks to show'. To get the VMs back running I needed to change a few things using the Windows recovery mode. Apparently the crash ocurred during update installation (perfect timing!). End of the story: Windows installation was completely broken. After nearly about three months of uptime, FreeNAS decided for yet some unclear reasons to crash completely (probably a kernel panic). I have a bunch of Windows Server VMs running in a VMware vSphere HomeLab. This post was published 2 years 4 months 19 days ago, so the post may be outdated.
