Hi,
One of the suer accidentally suspend a virtual machine and when I try to power it on, I got error "insufficient disk space on data-store" and then it geos back to suspend state. Would someone tell me what is the proper way to un-suspend the virtual machine??
Thanks.
Have you tried to explore the space warning? It might need to allocate a swap space to start. The swap size should be the difference between configured and reserved memory. So, maybe increasing the memory reservation might help.
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Is there another way to take the VM out of the suspend state besides powering it on??
Not sure, I would probably try to look at the .vmx (configuration) file of that VM.
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Have you tried these:
vmware-cmd <vm_cfg> start
if not, try
vmware-cmd <vm_cfg> stop trysoft
or
vmware-cmd <vm_cfg> stop hard
Hope one of these help you!
What is the <_cfg> referring to??
It refers to the VMX file (complete path including the filename)
I tried that but I got errors saying that the operation could not be performed in the current state (suspend)
You might want to check your communications with your storage system. I've seen similar issued when the SAN "lost" the IDs of the virtural servers. The fix was to remove the vitural servers from the SAN and represent them.
Never found out from the SAN folks why there was the communications problem but as soon as the servers were represented, I could boot them without error messages.
Mike
Thanks for the information.
I finally shutdown another VM and that allow me to migrate it to another datastore and thus release the disk space. The power on the suspended VMs.
Thanks everyone for thier help.