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Hey all! 

 

I did a cluster conversion and Enabled and installed NGT’s on my guest vms and the vm’s will not boot. 

 

 

 

I get the error “Unable to find a valid boot device” 

 

 

The VM’s are UEFI enabled as well. 

 

Looks like all my VM’s vDisks are missing, I converted a few from UEFI to BIOS to see if that changed anything, but still missing disk. 

 

I see some data in my recycle bin, wonder if when the cluter conversion took place it deleted the vDisks / VMDK’s on the conversion. 

 

Does anyone know where i could check for the vm’s vdisks and can i add existing disks? 


Is this a production cluster or CE?

 

In case of production involve support. 

In case of CE can you show a screenshot of the vm settings? (including disks)


Its a POC Prod cluter, I was giving the green light to deploy the cluster with foundation, everything was perfect and built out VCSA, all ESXi hosts, networking (VSS & VDS (little did i know you can only have one sw for conversion) and worked with support as well. I enabled and installed NGT’s on half of my test vm’s I had build NODE01-10 and NODE11-20 I left w/ none install or enable to see if they would boot on the other side. The convert VM task in the events was completed with no errors and support and I agreed the VDISK just were nuked in the conversion. I had noticed early that all vms converted in the process to AHV had no vdisks and support and I review all storage containers and no luck. It was just a POC, but ya i think Move will have to be the way in the future haha. 

 

Thanks !! 


Lol.; ) Yes, MOVE is your friend in this case 😉

 

I hope the “upgrade” to AHV goes smooth on the production cluster with MOVE. (tip, start with a three node cluster and then do 1 node at the time (shrink → expand))

 


Awesome Thanks !! 


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