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colt18
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Vm doesn't start

Ok here I'm folks. Just again I find myself in hands of you desperately seeking an answer for the mess I face up.

I got a VM which Exchange Server 2010 runs on it. It has 4 disk consisting of 50,500,100 and 5 GBs. The first disk has OS, the second disk holds Mailboxes, I dunno what does the third and fourth does but it is not our concern now. The thing is our electricity went down and our generator started to work. But in a meanwhile generator also suspended due to overload from some air conditioners working. Then it all come to my servers working from my UPS which I tested it lasts for 3 minutes. I tried to shut down the Exchange Server but in its shutdown process the juice from UPS went down leaving me entirely upset and the machine in an uncompleted shutdown sequence. After power got on I weren't able to start the VM which runs Exchange and that is our problem too in this post not other machines since they are running fine. It is not like the machine doesn't turns on it turns on that in Recent Tasks are Initializing VM shows completed. When the VM starts after bios screen it halts on this screen with the cursor not blinking on the top left of the screen.

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At first I thought that it may be an OS failure because it didn't shutdown properly moreover it got out of power. I connected an ISO of Windows Server 2008 SP2 wishing that I could fix it by startup repair or file system check stuff you know. But it didn't started from CD even I set the first boot device CD. After that in one of Windows Server 2008 running VM's I added a harddisk and show the vmdk file of my failed machine of course I put my failed machine in state of power off. Each one of the failed machines Hard disks also known as VMDK files didn't appear in my working machine. I refreshed the page Disk Management and I selected Rescan Disks bu nothing happened.  And from that I got the idea that My VMDK files or moreover VMDK-flat files seems corrupt. What could I do about that. How could I get the VMDK files working. Any possible workover. By the way there is no Error Message from VCENTER. It thinks all stuff runs fine but it is not. Even The VCENTER couldn't process a CD boot. But other machines could boot with that CD no problem. Any possible workaround. Gotta be fast or I'm K.I.A.

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LailaC
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You can try creating a new virtual machine and attaching that vmdk file ?

Are your other vm's working ? http://imagicon.info/cat/5-59/icon_ponder.gif

Or you can provide the logs to vmware support, they are the one who can assist you best on this http://imagicon.info/cat/5-59/good.gif

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colt18
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I already do that. It didn't worked by the way. And other vm's running pretty good. I doubt that it may be due to vmdk-flat file failure while VM was shutting down.

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athlon_crazy
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I think this is the time for you to file a support request with Vmware Tech Support. We had the same problem last month and caused the vmdk detected as not formatted. Further analysis using forensic tools such "testdisk" wasn't able to detect any volume nor partition from vmdk.

http://www.no-x.org
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klauzser
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If all actions seem to fail, the next best option is to get a support ticket. The tech team will surely help you further on this.

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satya1
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colt18 wrote:

I already do that. It didn't worked by the way. And other vm's running pretty good. I doubt that it may be due to vmdk-flat file failure while VM was shutting down.

Hi please let me know the what are the lk and log file are there .

Yours,

Satya

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colt18
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FYI I'll upload log files too. Wish you could find something useful.

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