Cannot open the disk

[d3l0n]

I've changed the size of vHD, after I powered on the vimage I got the following error:

Cannot open the disk /vmfs/volumes/48XXXXXXXX-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx/vimage/vimage-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Reason: The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.

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What I did before was changes the size of vimage.vmdk in the folder /vmfs/volumes/data/vimage, when I booted the system to resize the partition I did not see the change I have made. I looked into the 48XXXXXXXX folder and found the vimage.vmdk size in this folder as it was originally (before the change).

Now am not sure which version/copy should I do vmdk size change to?

How I can fix this problem/error I'm getting?

Thanks,

[Texiwill · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Moved to the Virtual Machine and GUest OS forum.

You resized the base VMDK while a snapshot existed. Due to this your parent disk (VMDK) is not in sync with the snapshot or 'DELTA' and therefore the snapshot can not be used.

I would restore from backup, commit your snapshots, then resize.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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[continuum]

Don't give up so early - with some luck a small edit will fix this .... post all vmdk-text files

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