Hi All,
I am not able to power on one VM due to above error. I have checked and there vmdk file in the datastore..
Anyone can help....
Could you please verify whether or not the VM is running on snapshot?
no snapshot..but i can not see any flat.vmdk file...
is there any way where i can copy the flat.vmdk file from snapshot. We take datastore snapshots, and i can see the flat.vmdk file in snapshot. The file is 30GB and if I download it locally and then move it to the server folder it will take time.
Is there any other way to do that?
If you copy the flat.vmdk manually, I afraid the new disk is without the latest changes (delta). Try clone it instead #vmkfstools -i
BTW, couple of screenshots will be very helpful. (Datastore browser > VM folder, virtual disk> Edit setting & etc)
In addition to the screen shots, please post (attach) the VM's latest vmware.log file. This should contain details about the error message.
André
According to the screen shot the base disks have a new time stamp whereas the snapshot show a rather old one. This usually happens if someone manually attached the virtual disks to a VM.!? Can you please explain exactly what happened (and when) to see whether there's a chance to "restore" the snapshots. Since the GUI does not show all files, it's important to run ls -lisa from the command line (e.g. using SSH/putty) to see the time stamps of all files.
André
Actually this vm is used by our development team. A user from the team came to me and reported that he is not able to connect to one of his machine yesterday. I found this machine is power off status. There were alerts i could see in vshere;
VM powered off an dthen a log was Configuration file not found.
we really need to see the vmware.logs - especially the details about the I/O errors.
There exists a certain type of errors where you will not be able to move/cone/convert the vmdk unless you use a Linux system to do so.
I do not know how can i give you vm's vmware.log file.
Can you tell me how to do that?
You can download these files from the VM's folder in the datastore browser. Please download all the vmware*.log files, compress/zip them and attach the .zip file to your next post using "Attach Files".
André
PLease refer the below KB article. this might help you
@ hmus
OPs problem is completely different - your link does not apply