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godaba
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Failed to start the virtual machine.

Hi,

Am getting a below error, while powering on a VM, need suggestions on actions to be taken. Its a production machine, please help.

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godaba
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below is the error.

Failed to start the virtual machine.

Module DiskEarly power on failed.

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dmeyner22
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can you browse the Datastore that your VM is on and list the files you see in there and post it?

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godaba
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Please find the file extensions below.

.vmx

vmware-1.log

vmware.log

flat.vmdk

.vmsd

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vijayrana968
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Is that all you have, post snapshot of error and VM files on datastore.

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godaba
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Yes,

These are the results, nothing can be found the store.

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Finikiez
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is it a vm which has been created on Workstation?

If so you need to convert it using converter standalone first.

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dmeyner22
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Enthusiast

What version of ESXi are you running?

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dmeyner22
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If that is all you have take a look at this KB

VMware KB: Recreating a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file

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