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Reza5586
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‎10-12-2017 09:42 PM

Help me with this error please : "An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM . Failed to start the virtual machine.

I have a VM Machine on ESX 6.0.0 and suddenly I can't power on my vm machine and its get me this error when I try to start it :

"

An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM VSQL02N00.

Failed to start the virtual machine.

Module Disk power on failed.

Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/4f93b82e-e9ca9f0f-01f4-0007e9a51c90/VSQL02N00/VSQL02N00_1-000004.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

5 (Input/output error)

"

I attached log and vmx files and any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

vmware-563.log.zip
VSQL02N00.vmx.zip
vmware.log.zip
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planetshoots
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‎10-12-2017 11:52 PM

Is it a Microsoft SQL clustered disk?

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Reza5586
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‎10-13-2017 12:11 AM

this vm machine contains a Microsoft SQL 2008 database files but it's not a clustered disk.

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planetshoots
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‎10-13-2017 12:56 AM

Please refer the below VMware KB doc

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=10079...

As per your log

There is  content ID mismatch is there. I hope this helps you

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