I hope someone can explain this to me. I run my VMs from NFS mounts on NetApp Filers. I wanted to recover some files from a previous night's snapshot, so I made a flexclone volume from the snapshot, mounted that, and added the .vmdk disk file from the flexclone snapshot to another VM. I also removed the Lock file from the flexclone snapshot. I continued to get the errors below until I powered off the original VM. The flexclone is a separate, Read/Write copy. Why can't the .vmdk copy be opened and read while the original is running? Is there another step I need to take?
This is from the vmware.log.
Dec 09 09:04:43.205: vmx| HotAdd: Adding disk '/vmfs/volumes/54b7e8aa-72824e19/hqs32/hqs32.vmdk' with mode 'persistent' to scsi0:1
Dec 09 09:04:43.205: vmx| DISK: OPEN scsi0:1 '/vmfs/volumes/54b7e8aa-72824e19/hqs32/hqs32.vmdk' persistent R[(null)]
Dec 09 09:04:43.209: vmx| DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/54b7e8aa-72824e19/hqs32/hqs32-flat.vmdk" : failed to open (1048585): AIOMgr_Open failed. Type 3
Dec 09 09:04:43.209: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Failed to open extents for descriptor file in normal mode
Dec 09 09:04:43.209: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "/vmfs/volumes/54b7e8aa-72824e19/hqs32/hqs32.vmdk" : failed to open (Device or resource busy).
Dec 09 09:04:43.209: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/54b7e8aa-72824e19/hqs32/hqs32.vmdk" : failed to open (Device or resource busy).
Dec 09 09:04:43.209: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/54b7e8aa-72824e19/hqs32/hqs32.vmdk' with flags 0xa (Device or resource busy).
Dec 09 09:04:43.209: vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk "/vmfs/volumes/54b7e8aa-72824e19/hqs32/hqs32.vmdk": Device or resource busy (1048585).
