Earlier today I received and error after rebooting one of my VMs. The error was as followed:
Cannot open the configuration file /vmfs/volumes/path to datastore/vm-name/vm-name.vmx
Did a little searching and found the solution was to remove the VM from inventory then re-add it back. As I was going through the steps the add to inventory option was greyed out. I then attempted to re-create the VM with the same specs and just point to the old vmdk file but when I got to the option to select the vmdk file the file was missing. I browsed the datastore through command line and I found the vmdk descriptor file but not the actual vmdk file.
Is there anything I am overlooking when I attempt to re-add this VM?