Recreating a missing virtual machine disk (VMDK) descriptor file

Powering on the virtual machine fails with the error: The file specified is not a virtual disk (15) or Recreating a missing virtual machine disk (VMDK) descriptor file follow links below from the VMware knowledge base

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002511
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1016838

While following the steps, you may find the scsi controller is "lsisas1068" which is not supported as virtual controller in the command vmkfstools, so you can use "lsilogic" instead like I did with my Windows 2008 and it worked just fine.

HINT:
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
This new controller is only available with virtual hardware 7
it is a good choice for Windows 7 and 2008 R2