Recover vCenter Appliance after Power/Storage Failure

Well, this would have saved me quite a bit of time in my past. My storage device got unplugged from the network while my lab was running and vCenter refused to come back. This is expected as the appliance has an embedded database.

I found this article from VMware that worked! It took less than 10 minutes.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2149838

Use Shift + PgUp to scroll through the boot process and find out what filesystem, if any, is causing trouble.

Then type df -h to ensure none of the filesystems are full.

Compare /etc/fstab with the output from dh -f.

Once you have identified the missing or corrupt filesystem, run

e2fsck -y /dev/filesystem-that-needs-to-be-checked

Reboot the appliance and away you go!

reboot

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