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MartinE11
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Cloned VM gets corrupt over and over again.

Hello

I am currently facing a strange problem. If I clone our GoldenImage VM (used for View Deployment) it gets corrupt.

The cloned VM (Win7) mostly starts successfully untill I start clicking around a little bit and it detects some missing Files. Some programs are unable to run and sometimes I get error messages that some .dll files were missing.

After restarting the cloned VM mostly check disk runs (CHKDSK) and it detects a lot of missing and corrupt files.

So the whole cloned VM is very faulty and unstable.

I tried to clone this VM different times but its always corrupt.

Someone got an Idea whats wrong there?

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crawfordm
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Which version of ESXi are you using?  Sounds like you need to check the drives on your host.  Is the GoldenImage on the same datastore as the clone?  I have tried cloning to a different datastore?

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MartinE11
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Hello

Thanks for trying to help me.

It’s ESX 5.5.

Yes they are on the same LUN.  The original VM works perfectly. I haven’t tested to clone it to a different datastore yet. I am gonna test this tomorrow but I not really expect it to be better.

VMWare mentioned that the problem is may caused by snapshots that are on this VM, but I never had any cloning issues with Snapshots on VMs.

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MartinE11
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Hello

I try to push this a little bit.

Its really really really strange.

I tried cloning to a different LUN and it is currupt. Also I tried Cloning a VM without Snapshots and it's failing to.

I can check if the cloned VM is healthy by running chkdsk. Sometimes it cleanes tousand of wrong sectors/files. Sometimes there are only a bunch of files corrupt.

What I found out is that if there are multiple other process running on vCenter the Image seems to be more corrupt then when there are no operations.

Someone got an idea?

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