Cannot power On VM, Cannot open the disk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on

[superimoAGSGrou]

HI all,

In my environment I have a cluster with 3 ESX 4.0.0 build 175625 with HA and DRS/DPM enable.

I perform all backups with Vmware Data recovery.

This morning one machine was poweroff. I try to poweron the vm but i have received the follwing error:

Cannot power On Myserver on esx05 Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/4a26ad53-c44022a0-d4b3-000423d-227f3/Myserver/Myserver_1-0000-

18.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Argument list too long.

The files in datastore are:

1168 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 01:07 Myserver_1-000006.vmdk

1171 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 01:04 Myserver_1-000007-delta.vmdk

1170 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 01:35 Myserver_1-000007.vmdk

1173 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 01:33 Myserver_1-000008-delta.vmdk

1172 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 02:05 Myserver_1-000008.vmdk

1175 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 02:03 Myserver_1-000009-delta.vmdk

1174 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 02:34 Myserver_1-000009.vmdk

1177 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 02:32 Myserver_1-000010-delta.vmdk

1176 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 03:06 Myserver_1-000010.vmdk

1179 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 03:04 Myserver_1-000011-delta.vmdk

1178 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 03:36 Myserver_1-000011.vmdk

1181 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 03:34 Myserver_1-000012-delta.vmdk

1180 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 04:04 Myserver_1-000012.vmdk

1183 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 04:03 Myserver_1-000013-delta.vmdk

1182 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 04:35 Myserver_1-000013.vmdk

1185 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 04:33 Myserver_1-000014-delta.vmdk

1184 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 05:05 Myserver_1-000014.vmdk

1187 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 05:03 Myserver_1-000015-delta.vmdk

1186 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 05:35 Myserver_1-000015.vmdk

1189 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 05:33 Myserver_1-000016-delta.vmdk

1188 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 06:05 Myserver_1-000016.vmdk

1191 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 06:04 Myserver_1-000017-delta.vmdk

1190 -rw------- 1 root root 348 Nov 18 06:35 Myserver_1-000017.vmdk

1160 -rw------- 1 root root 135680 Nov 18 06:33 Myserver_1-000018-delta.vmdk

1192 -rw------- 1 root root 325 Nov 18 06:33 Myserver_1-000018.vmdk

1145 -rw------- 1 root root 69816176640 Nov 17 22:03 Myserver_1-flat.vmdk

1146 -rw------- 1 root root 533 Nov 17 23:02 Myserver_1.vmdk

1147 -rw-rr 1 root root 37 Nov 17 17:44 Myserver-9f958cf7.hlog

1155 -rw-rr 1 root root 13 Nov 17 21:34 Myserver-aux.xml

1143 -rw------- 1 root root 21484431360 Nov 17 22:03 Myserver-flat.vmdk

1148 -rw------- 1 root root 8684 Nov 17 22:04 Myserver.nvram

1144 -rw------- 1 root root 530 Nov 18 09:36 Myserver.vmdk

1142 -rw------- 1 root root 1148 Nov 18 06:35 Myserver.vmsd

1140 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2671 Nov 18 09:27 Myserver.vmx

1141 -rw------- 1 root root 271 Nov 17 22:27 Myserver.vmxf

1153 -rw-rr 1 root root 29124 Nov 17 22:07 vmware-46.log

1154 -rw-rr 1 root root 29123 Nov 17 22:11 vmware-47.log

1156 -rw-rr 1 root root 29123 Nov 17 22:19 vmware-48.log

1150 -rw-rr 1 root root 29129 Nov 17 22:28 vmware-49.log

1151 -rw-rr 1 root root 40544 Nov 18 09:10 vmware-50.log

1152 -rw-rr 1 root root 39412 Nov 18 09:16 vmware-51.log

1193 -rw-rr 1 root root 39417 Nov 18 09:27 vmware.log

1149 -r----

---

1 root root 7753728 Nov 17 22:05 vmware-vmx-zdump.000

Thank you in advance,

Simone Reale

[admin]

I see a monitor panic dump in above listing

1193 -rw-rr 1 root root 39417 Nov 18 09:27 vmware.log

1149 -r----

---

1 root root 7753728 Nov 17 22:05 vmware-vmx-zdump.000

Can you please file a bug, uploading vmware-vmx-zdump.000, vm-support logs, Please give full set-up details & what are steps carried out.

Thanx,

-M

[superimoAGSGrou]

Hi,

I attach the dump log. The vm-support log for the host, where the vm is registered, is too big. (26MB more than 10MB permittted)

The 3 hosts are IBM xseries 3550 1CPU DC with 16GB of RAM.

The destination repository for VDR is a Microsoft network share on a separate physical server.

The VM is a Windows 2k3 32bit 2vCPU, 2GB, 2 vDisk Thin (22GB and 70GB). Oracle 8.0.2 is installed.

I have also opened a request at Vmware support.

I tried to change hosted host and clone the VM but the same error occurred.

Thank you,

Regard

Simone

[superimoAGS]

Hi,

I have resolved.

In .vmx file the vDisk pointing to the snapshot rather than the original vmdk file.

I think the VDR process is terminated abnormally and did not properly reconfigured vmx file.

Thank you,

Simone Reale