Domain Controller Down (VM)
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 @wirestyle22 said in Domain Controller Down (VM): @JaredBusch What does check things mean? network test again? Click on 192.168.10.12 Look at the status on the screen. 
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 @JaredBusch said in Domain Controller Down (VM): @wirestyle22 click back on the host and check things there. Click on the IP address at the top and then look for the storage devices. 
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 really, click the IP at the top and look at anything that gives you status notices.. take screen shots of the tabs and post them. 
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 what's on the Summary tab? 
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 These inaccessible servers are missing the config files as per the event log 
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 @wirestyle22 said in Domain Controller Down (VM): There. That tells us a lot. You are on ESXi Essentials, and you are on non SSD local storage. Right click on the ESX01_LOCAL and choose browse. 
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 Do you have a SAN? 
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 @wirestyle22 said in Domain Controller Down (VM): These inaccessible servers are missing the config files as per the event log Are any of these VMs stored on a SAN? 
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 @Dashrender said in Domain Controller Down (VM): Do you have a SAN? I assume not, but had to ask anyhow. 
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 @JaredBusch said in Domain Controller Down (VM): Right click on the ESX01_LOCAL and choose browse. post a picture of this 
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 @Dashrender said in Domain Controller Down (VM): @Dashrender said in Domain Controller Down (VM): Do you have a SAN? I assume not, but had to ask anyhow. I assume he does because that local storage only has 300GB 
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 @wirestyle22 said in Domain Controller Down (VM):  Yup, none of that is your VM data. You need to find it. 
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 @JaredBusch This is what I found before but I didn't know how to articulate it. 
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 @JaredBusch said in Domain Controller Down (VM): @wirestyle22 said in Domain Controller Down (VM): There. That tells us a lot. You are on ESXi Essentials, and you are on non SSD local storage. Right click on the ESX01_LOCAL and choose browse. Oh this summary also tells us that you have no automatic failover or HA. And you have essentials Plus, not essentials I misread that. 
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 @wirestyle22 go back tot he configuration tab and then click storage on the left menu. 



