My VMware host had a power failure yesterday morning and one of my VM's seem to suffer form this.
My setup is in some way simple and is a ESXi host with two VM's and i based as this:
ESXi 5.1 run on USB with two separate storage disks. One disk for one VM (still working) and another disk with the other VM and a .locker folder (not working).
When I discovered the crash I had to remove the VM's from the inventory through the vmware-client as the were shown as "unknown". Then I tried to add both VM's to the inventory again - the first successfully and then started my problems with the other VM.
When I tried to add this to the inventory I didn't have the option to do this as it were "grayed out"!
Then I started google around and discovered that I might had a problem with a locked file in the VMDIR and I did find a .lck file. And I did some test (vmkfstools -D) and discover that my the VM were locked but I got some different readings like this:
vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/516ac177-2009a248-6f97-001617628430/mail.XXXXXX.com/mail.XXXXXX.com.vmdk
Lock [type 10c00001 offset 18870272 v 168, hb offset 3981824
gen 115, mode 0, owner 00000000-00000000-0000-000000000000 mtime 1453
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Addr <4, 20, 30>, gen 80, links 1, type reg, flags 0, uid 0, gid 0, mode 600
len 533, nb 0 tbz 0, cow 0, newSinceEpoch 0, zla 4305, bs 8192
vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/516ac177-2009a248-6f97-001617628430/mail.XXXXXX.com/mail.XXXXXX.com.vmx
Lock [type 10c00001 offset 18810880 v 279, hb offset 3981312
gen 25, mode 1, owner 522ca7ed-9b3b0640-0fcd-001617628430 mtime 120587
num 0 gblnum 0 gblgen 0 gblbrk 0]
Addr <4, 20, 1>, gen 2, links 1, type reg, flags 0, uid 0, gid 0, mode 100755
len 2899, nb 1 tbz 0, cow 0, newSinceEpoch 1, zla 2, bs 8192
My MAC address is identically to 001617628430
Then I tried to remove the .lck file in the vmware-client but were not allowed to do this (I think the message were "GOT ERROR"). Then I tried to remove the .lck file through SSH and got another error this time "Input/output error".
After a long time poking around on the internet searching for the golden answer I had realised that were not able to do anything with any of the files in the VMDIR and every time I tried to do something in SSH I got errors like "Input/output error", "Input/output error (327689)" and thorough another test I discovered also that all the files gave me the error "disk chain is not consistent"!
I have also noised that I weren't able to copy any of the files to another location or download them to my computer.
I have also noised there seem to be similar problems regarding the .locker folder. Here I'm not able to open (ex. logs), copy or download any files! Therefore is also suspect there might be at problem concerning this issue.
I don't suspect that the disk have a hardware problem in fact I have som old (inactive) VM's on this "problem disk" but I have no problem in coping or downloading these files!
As often (for us all) this is a critical loss if I can't startup this VM again or at least in some way get my data from these files as this hold my entire mail-system include contacts, calender etc.
I feel my hands are bound and I'm heading down a dead end.
If your can give me a solution or shed some light I will be more than pleased 🙂
All the best regards to all of you
Be_a_EZ
