VMFS 5 issue

[continuum]

sorry for the angry headline of this post ....

recently I see a frightening increase of a special error that renders VMs absolutely unusable because files are locked or corrupt.
I thought it was limited to VMFS 3 and ESX(i) 4.1
Today I saw the first case with ESXi 5 using VMFS 5.

here is the relevant example message:

vmx| FileIOErrno2Result: Unexpected errno=22, Invalid argument
vmx| AIOGNRC: Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/4ebc15b1-f6959917-842f-0019b9eebb39/SBSSERVER.spoka.local/SBSSERVER.spoka.local-flat.vmdk' : Invalid argument (1600000002) (0x2013).
vmx| DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/4ebc15b1-f6959917-842f-0019b9eebb39/SBSSERVER.spoka.local/SBSSERVER.spoka.local-flat.vmdk" : failed to open (Invalid argument): AIOMgr_Open failed. Type 3
vmx| DISKLIB-LINK  : "/vmfs/volumes/4ebc15b1-f6959917-842f-0019b9eebb39/SBSSERVER.spoka.local/SBSSERVER.spoka.local.vmdk" : failed to open (Invalid argument).
vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/4ebc15b1-f6959917-842f-0019b9eebb39/SBSSERVER.spoka.local/SBSSERVER.spoka.local.vmdk" : failed to open (Invalid argument).
vmx| DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/4ebc15b1-f6959917-842f-0019b9eebb39/SBSSERVER.spoka.local/SBSSERVER.spoka.local.vmdk' with flags 0xa Invalid argument (1441801).
vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk "/vmfs/volumes/4ebc15b1-f6959917-842f-0019b9eebb39/SBSSERVER.spoka.local/SBSSERVER.spoka.local.vmdk": Invalid argument (1441801).
vmx| Msg_Post: Error                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

If you get this error with VMFS 3 you can still download the vmdks with a Linux LiveCD.

On VMFS 5 there is nothing left to do other than reformat the datastore !!!

For now I will warn any user NOT to use VMFS 5

[joergriether]

VMware, I would love to see you taking this issue very serious, because it IS indeed VERY SERIOUS! Would you please give us a follow-up of your internal research? Just to keep focus, I don´t think we´d expected a solution till now but I find it would be self-evident to keep us at least in the loop.

best regards,

Joerg

[joergriether]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTY-oIHpxew

[jftuga]

Was this ever addressed and/or fixed by VMWare?

[continuum]

I have not heard any news about this

[joergriether]

VMware please respond NOW!

[thoberre]

+ 1 for this excact error.

[depping]

thoberre wrote:

+ 1 for this excact error.

Please submit a support request.