Corrupt virtual disks

[ocuevas1]

Hi everybody.

I need your help.

I had a situation, my array disk go broken down and my virtual machines go down.

Later the discs go up and vmware show me this message

An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM MXMXO-I-DB4 - orig.

Failed to create swap file '/vmfs/volumes/53bf8e38-3892878b-be89-c81f66f3b1e4/MXMXO-I-DB4/vmx-MXMXO-I-DB4-542573655-1.vswp' : Not found

Could not start VMX: msg.vmk.status.VMK_NOT_FOUND

What can I do to recovery the disk information?

[Sreejesh_D]

try removing the VM from and re-register it. Here are the steps.

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=10061...

[ocuevas1]

Hi Yezdi.

I tried but not work 😞

Do you know how I recovery the information found in the vmdk?

Regards

[deepaksel]

Create a new VM and mount the VMDKs from the failed VM. You can recover your data

[ocuevas1]

Hi Deepakse.

I tried but when I power on t he VM shows this message

An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM MXMXO-I-DB4 - orig.

Failed to create swap file '/vmfs/volumes/53bf8e38-3892878b-be89-c81f66f3b1e4/MXMXO-I-DB4/vmx-MXMXO-I-DB4-542573655-1.vswp' : Not found

Could not start VMX: msg.vmk.status.VMK_NOT_FOUND

Regards

[TheBobkin]

Hello,

Unregister the VM from inventory

Connect via SSH to a host that has access to the storage this VM is located on..

Navigate to the VMs namespace directory:

# cd /vmfs/volumes/53bf8e38-3892878b-be89-c81f66f3b1e4/MXMXO-I-DB4

Check what is here:

# ls -lah

If any .vswp files exist, make a temp folder and move them there, if you see a ~vmx (NOT .vmx) also move this to the temp folder.

# mkdir temp1

# mv *vswp temp1

Register the VM again and attempt to power on.

Bob

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