I have a VM that disappeared from inventory but is still in the datastore (not local). I believe it was turned off. I tried adding it back to the inventory but received a message that a vm was already registered with that name. I believe these are the steps that led to this condition:
I had a consultant come in a few weeks ago and replace an ESXi host with a new one. All the VM's were moved off the old host. The VM in question would have been turned off as we were not using it. I just noticed today that it was not in inventory because I am now ready to use it.
Another change that happened a few weeks ago was replacing vCenter with the vCenter appliance. I am not sure if that had anything to do with it or not.
Any suggestions how I might see the vm in inventory again?