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Many machines in cluster showing orphan

Jun 10, 2008 4:04 PM

Click to view gr8fella's profile Novice gr8fella 3 posts since
Mar 13, 2008

We had this problem today in which many of the machines on a cluster with HA and DRS enabled is showing as ghost. Please let me know how to troubleshoot the problem and a probable cause for this.

Thanks in advance

Reply Re: Many machines in cluster showing orphan Jun 10, 2008 4:11 PM
Click to view jitendrakmr's profile Hot Shot jitendrakmr 167 posts since
Jun 23, 2007
There can be several reasons behind this issue. The most prabable is that the external storage on which the machines are stored has got offline. You can check vmkernel logs of any ESX host in the cluster to confirm this.

Also are the machines which are showing orphan still available on network?

Jitendra Kumar


MCSE 2003, VCP, CCNA, ITIL Foundation

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