My ESXI server was running from a USB stick that got corrupted and as a result prevented my server from booting. I fixed this by reinstalling ESXI on a new memory stick and began re-adding all of my VMs.
However when I try to start them up it is saying that it cannot find the VMDK file, and it appears to have added a suffix of .lock4 to all files in all of my VM folders.
I've tried removing the lock4 suffix, but this does not seem to help.
I've been sitting in a freezing cold server room for 5hrs now, so any help is really appreciated :)
mail1-uk.server.com-aux.xml mail1-uk.server.com.vmx vmware-2.log.lock4 vmware-5.log.lock4 mail1-uk.server.com-flat.vmdk mail1-uk.server.com.vmxf vmware-3.log vmware.log mail1-uk.server.com.nvram vmware-1.log vmware-3.log.lock4 vmware.log.lock4 mail1-uk.server.com.vmdk.lock4 vmware-1.log.lock4 vmware-4.log vmx-mail1-uk.server.com-3109620673-1.vswp