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after 3.5 host remediation, one VM will not start: "a file was not found"

{font:Arial}{size:2}{color:#000000}the error message is: "a file was not found". In addition to using update manager to remediate, I moved this host into an EVC cluster -- it is the first and only server in the new cluster currently. {color}{size}{font}
{font:Arial}{size:2}Below is an ls -l in the VM directory, and then also a CAT of the descriptor file. Any suggestions how to get this VM started again?{size}{font}
{font:Arial}{size:2}{color:#000000}[root@rp-esx1 rp-altium]# ls -l total 10486464 -rw------- 1 root root 21474836480 Jun 10 2008 rp-altium-flat.vmdk -rw------- 1 root root 8684 Feb 11 21:41 rp-altium.nvram -rw------- 1 root root 428 Jun 10 2008 rp-altium.vmdk -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 10 2008 rp-altium.vmsd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1827 Feb 12 09:10 rp-altium.vmx -rw------- 1 root root 264 Feb 12 09:10 rp-altium.vmxf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20217 Feb 12 09:08 vmware-10.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20327 Feb 12 09:09 vmware-11.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20217 Feb 11 23:02 vmware-6.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20217 Feb 11 23:03 vmware-7.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20217 Feb 12 08:02 vmware-8.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20217 Feb 12 09:07 vmware-9.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20443 Feb 12 09:10 vmware.log [root@rp-esx1 rp-altium]# {color}{size}{font}
{font:Arial}{size:2}{color:#000000}[root@rp-esx1 rp-altium]# cat rp-altium.vmdk # Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=6017eacd parentCID=ffffffff createType="vmfs"{color}{size}{font}
{font:Arial}{size:2}{color:#000000}# Extent description RW 41943040 VMFS "rp-altium-flat.vmdk"{color}{size}{font}
{font:Arial}{size:2}{color:#000000}# The Disk Data Base #DDB{color}{size}{font}
{font:Arial}{size:2}{color:#000000}ddb.thinProvisioned = "1" ddb.toolsVersion = "7201" ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4" ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 93 71 25 3b 7f-e3 5c b1 6f 7a c8 e0 aa" ddb.geometry.cylinders = "2610" ddb.geometry.heads = "255" ddb.geometry.sectors = "63" ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic" [root@rp-esx1 rp-altium]# {color}{size}{font}
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which file was not found ?

any hints in the vmware.log ?

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