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I have a serious problem here. After I forced a reboot of a freezed ESXi 4.1 server, a VM is literally gone. When I ssh to the host and run ls -lah inside the datastore, it returnes:

/vmfs/volumes/51193143-2de76e36-d365-001b21b87f7c # ls -lah
ls: ./MISSING-VM: No such file or directory
drwxr-xr-t    1 root     root         2.6k Sep  8  2013 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          512 Apr 30 00:23 ..
-r--------    1 root     root         3.6M Feb 11  2013 .fbb.sf
-r--------    1 root     root        60.2M Feb 11  2013 .fdc.sf
-r--------    1 root     root       243.8M Feb 11  2013 .pbc.sf
-r--------    1 root     root       248.3M Feb 11  2013 .sbc.sf
-r--------    1 root     root         4.0M Feb 11  2013 .vh.sf
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          560 Jan  2 13:16 vm1
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1.5k Apr 29 23:07 vm2

In other words: A VM named 'MISSING-VM' has vanished. It seems to be on the disk, because the free space on the disk has not grown. How can I get my VM back?

Edit: Additional information, thanks to those who replied so far:

# echo *
MISSING-VM vm1 vm2 [...]
# ls -ld MISSING-VM
ls: MISSING-VM: No such file or directory
# cd MISSING-VM
-ash: cd: can't cd to MISSING-VM

Edit 2: If I run a command like find, something similar as with ls happens:

~ # find / | grep anything
find: /vmfs/volumes/51193143-2de76e36-d365-001b21b87f7c/MISSING-VM: No such file or directory
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Your vm is still in your datastore but is locked (raw format). Do you have fault tolerance activated ? Put your server on maintenance mode and on tab machine try to move the vm on other esx.

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This answer about undeleting files might be useful Unix/Linux undelete/recover deleted files if the file is still recoverable.

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