Hi folks,
I have landed myself into a terrible situation.
We have an ESXi4 hosting a lot of clients and has two datastores. The VMs in datastore 1 are all in good shape. However the VMs in datastore 2 have got a problem.
When I browse through the directory of each VM, I see only 2 files .vmdk and .vswp. A VM having snapshots have an additional .delta.vmdk file in the folder. The other supported files are missing. This is for all the directories in that datastore. When I try to delete any of the folder, it comes up with an error message
Delete file
Error caused by file. /vmfs/volumes/4b1e8e7e-5814bd9c-109c-00219b97997a/WinXPPro_32bit
Now, the ESXi has only 4 VMs running yet the ESXi's Memory is almost exhausted. Seems to me like the VM instances are still running.
Thanks in advance for any pointers to resolve this issue.