A file was not Found

[kro09]

Hi,

I have a strange problem, in my ESX 3.5 I have a SAN with 2 VM, both VM work fine I can connect with Remote Desktop but when I try to connecto with VCenter Consolo I get this message:

" Cannot connect to the virtual machine

Virtual Machine config file does not exist "

I have other SAN in the same ESX with 2 VM to and this VM work Fine.

Any idea???

thanks,

[akshunj]

I have experienced this problem when renaming vm config files in the datastore. A new VM was created by another administrator and for some reason there was an "_1" at the end of the vm name, which was causing havoc with a script I was running on a host. I tried to manually edit the name of the VM in the datastore at which point I experienced the same problem you have.

[kro09]

thank, I try to check the VM´s config file in the LUN and I obtain the message " a file was not Found" but the VM work fine. I won´t that if the ESX restart or shutdown for any reason this VM don´t Power On again.

Any solution, I have only 1 ESX ???

[idle-jam]

you can do a rebuild of the VMX file from here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=102388...

alternative would be that i create a new VM, create advance mode, and select use exisiting vmdk and point back to the existing VMDK. make sure you define the right CPU,Memory,Network settings. Once done a new set of VMX file and etc will be created in a new folder. You can power up and use.

to tidy up the multiple folders, you can do a storage vmotion to another datastore, and whatever leftover folders can be deleted.

iDLE-jAM | VCP 2, VCP 3 & VCP 4

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[AndreTheGiant]

Have a look if you have some snapshot. Maybe the missing file is there.

To make a backup of your VM (before power it off) I suggest to install the Converter inside it and make and V2V.

Andre