a VM machine got stuck

[fafa24]

Hi,

In a linked clone pool a maching is stuck. I cannot refresh or delete the machine from the View Console. I cannot even power off the machine in Vsphere. The Power off error is "Another task is already in progress"

I guess View tries to remedy the VM too. How can I stop the View task for this machine or pool so that I can power off the VM in Vsphere and delete it from disk. I guess after I have deleted the VM, View Composer will auto create it again.

Thanks,

Edy

[nzorn]

Sounds like you ran into this:  http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073390

If so you'll most likely have to reboot your ESXi host(s) to fix the stuck desktop.  I was never able to get them to shutdown even forcefully using the "esxcli vm process kill" command.

[5harky]

Here you go:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=2...

[fafa24]

I could only resolve it with restarting the host. There was another problem too. I have found out after restarting the Vcenter which is a VM on the host in question that suddenly the host and all its associated VMs were disconnected in the Vcenter. Strange was that I couldn't ping the host from the Vcenter server, but I was able to ping the host from other machines on the network.

A host reboot resolved it. I'm not sure, but I think that it is not the first time where I suddenly couldn't ping a ESXi host within Vcenter. We are using ESXi 5.5.

Thanks,

Edy

[h3nkY]

The "Another task is already in progress" message you saw may because previous task has not been completed yet. It can be stuck on ESXi side.

Try this VMware KB: Powering off a virtual machine on an ESXi host

Henky