I previoulsy blogged a bit about how I am backing up my VMware network at home. Today I came home to find my physical host was acting up. The WiFi NIC had "disappeared" and the machine would not shut down cleanly. Only a hard reset worked. I made sure to pause my VM’s before hitting the button. I reseated the WiFi card and that resolved that problem.
I powered up the host and started launching the VM’s after reattaching their storage. Two of the VM’s fired right up but the web server complained about corruption. Sure enough, it though the machine had no disks and only 32MB of RAM. Good luck with running a web server with that! I recovered the web server from a backup that automatically runs every Sunday morning. I opened the machine in VMware Server and awoke it from it’s suspended state. It was running perfectly. All that was remaining was to resynchronise the updated content that I had added on Sunday night.