Hi. I need to create a new VM from existing snapshot files. When I choose Custom VM and get to the "Use an existing disk" section, do I choose the flat vmdk or the delta? I'm guessing flat and then it will find the delta.
More info in case it's needed:
We have a Windows 2008 R2 guest running MySQL 5.6 in vSphere 6.0. I'm backing up this VM to a remote location with VM Explorer. The main db user last got a good sql dump almost 2 weeks ago. 4 days ago, he tried to get a new one but it failed and stopped the mysql service. He tried some db checks, but it keeps failing on the larger DBs and stopping the service. He can dump the small DBs, so we've tried tweaking buffers, max limits, etc, but no dice.
I have a snapshot from 5 days ago, and I'm copying that to a new VMFS LUN. We want to create a new vm from that and fire it up to see if we can get a dump from it. I'll disable the networking so that I can fire it up in the client console without worrying about name and ip conflicts.
Does this plan sound viable? And, of course, if you are a db admin and have any other ideas for fixing the current db, that would be awesome. I've already posted to the mysql forum.
Thanks.