Environment vCenter server 5.5, build 1945274, esxi 5.5.0 1892794 - Error Message - #The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on
VM is not pinging
getting below error while migrating the VM
#The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on.
#Module DiskEarly power on failed.
#Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/5579ba99-ad50f0a6-3465-0025b501a021/SDEPAPS284/SDEPAPS284.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
#Could not open/create change tracking file
#Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/5579ba99-ad50f0a6-3465-0025b501a021/SDEPAPS284/SDEPAPS284_1.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
#Could not open/create change tracking file
Datastore block size details:
Formatting:
File system - vmfs 5.60
Block size -1 MB
Please suggest.
I had this same issue after moving VMs to new hardware and upgrading to vmx10 vHardware. Here is how I resolved it;
1. Shutdown the VM.
2. vMotion to another host. (Not sure if this step is necessary but I did it)
3. SSH into the host the VM is now on and browse to the Datastore that the VM is on. cd vmfs/volumes/Datastore/VM_name
4. list (ls)
5. look for any -ctk.vmdk. All will need to be renamed. See step 6.
6. mv vmname-ctk.vmdk vmname-ctk.old
7. Power On VM and then try to migrate.
Good Luck
This is a known issue affecting vCenter 5.1 and 5.5
The issue is resolved in VMware vCenter server 5.1 Update 3 and VMware vCenter server 5.5 update 3.
For work around please go through this KB articles:
VMware KB: VMware vCenter Server 5.1/5.5 fails after hot-adding a shared VMDK or RDM