Hi,
I've a virtual machine copied from other places. I want to import/register this VM in another ESXi. During registering getting below error:
ESXi Version is 6.4
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module 'Disk' power on failed.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/59e4c7d8-2c5b4746-3e50-a0369ff3d714/windows-server-2012/SharePoint2013-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Object type requires hosted I/O
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
File system specific implementation of Lookup[file] failed
File system specific implementation of Lookup[file] failed
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
File system specific implementation of Lookup[file] failed
Please help to resolve the issue.
Many Thanks.
Welcome to the Community,
it looks like one, or more files are missing.
In this case we need to be very careful, because the VM has active snapshot(s). Doing the wrong thing may cause data loss!
As a first step, please run ls -elisa > filelist.txt in the VM's folder, and attach the filelist.txt to a reply post.
Dear Andre,
Thanks for your reply. Please check the attached output as below:
[root@localhost:~] ls -elisa /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/windows-server-2012/
total 50074664
96481796 8 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3500 Mon Aug 19 08:19:14 2019 .
4 1024 drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 4760 Mon Aug 19 03:58:07 2019 ..
151007876 8 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 420 Mon Aug 19 04:28:17 2019 SharePoint2013
146813572 41339904 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42331930624 Mon Aug 19 04:28:17 2019 SharePoint2013-000001.vmdk
109064708 4096000 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4194304000 Mon Aug 19 04:07:52 2019 Windows Server 2012-8bad51d3.vmem
67121796 2048 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1945681 Mon Aug 19 05:05:01 2019 Windows Server 2012-8bad51d3.vmss
41955972 4608000 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4718592000 Mon Aug 19 04:09:56 2019 Windows Server 2012-Snapshot1.vmem
75510404 2048 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1911847 Mon Aug 19 05:05:01 2019 Windows Server 2012-Snapshot1.vmsn
138424836 1024 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8684 Mon Aug 19 04:07:52 2019 Windows Server 2012.nvram
142619140 0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 489 Mon Aug 19 04:07:52 2019 Windows Server 2012.vmsd
104870404 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3632 Mon Aug 19 05:21:29 2019 Windows Server 2012.vmx
117453316 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4434 Mon Aug 19 04:07:52 2019 Windows Server 2012.vmxf
163590660 8 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 420 Fri Aug 16 07:35:05 2019 caches
58733188 1024 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32768 Mon Aug 19 05:05:00 2019 vmmcores-1.gz
125841924 1024 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 260029 Mon Aug 19 04:07:52 2019 vmware-1.log
159396356 1024 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 266808 Mon Aug 19 04:07:52 2019 vmware-2.log
113259012 1024 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 261409 Fri Aug 16 07:35:05 2019 vmware-3.log
142619268 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261409 Mon Aug 19 04:07:52 2019 vmware-4.log
171979396 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81811 Mon Aug 19 05:21:29 2019 vmware-5.log
188756612 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77429 Mon Aug 19 05:24:33 2019 vmware-6.log
62927492 5120 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4301355 Mon Aug 19 05:05:01 2019 vmware-vmx-0.dmp
71316100 5120 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4301673 Mon Aug 19 05:05:01 2019 vmware-vmx-1.dmp
79704708 5120 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4329940 Mon Aug 19 05:05:01 2019 vmware-vmx.dmp
151007748 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76181 Mon Aug 19 08:19:14 2019 vmware.log
134230532 1024 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83394 Mon Aug 19 04:07:52 2019 vprintproxy.log
[root@localhost:~]
[root@localhost:~]
[root@localhost:~] ls -elisa /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/windows-server-2012/SharePoint2013
total 82635792
151007876 8 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 420 Mon Aug 19 04:28:17 2019 .
96481796 8 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3500 Mon Aug 19 08:19:14 2019 ..
155202180 82635776 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84618444800 Mon Aug 19 05:05:00 2019 SharePoint2013.vmdk
Thanks.
It looks like you've copied the files from a desktop solution like VMware Workstation!?
The .vmdk format is not compatible with ESXi, and needs to be converted. What I'd recommend is that you use VMware's vCenter Converter to do a V2V (Virtual-to-Virtual) from the source VM to the ESXi host. Also make sure that you shut down the source VM prior to converting it. According to the files, it has been suspended.
André