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rongill
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need help with guest OS urgent !

a fiber cable went bad from the san to the switch this morning. I changed the cable and tried to reboot the fileserver. When I did it said couldn't start b/c of a snapshot issue.

None the less I rebooted the esx server and the VM is still in a hung state i think because it still says powering off in progress and doesn't give me any options to power on/off migrate.

I noticed it automatically migrated to another esx and i think thats where the snapshotting error came from . cause my paths are not setup correctly.

any help !!

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rongill
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restarted the vi services seemed to do the trick. Thanks guys !

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MDEPE
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If you remove the host from the cluster, you can re-inventor the guest on another host in the same cluster. If the host attempted to do a storage motion and failed, you will need to edit the .vmx file to comment out the storage motion disk references. Also, you need to download and delete the dmotion files. Please note that these files contain changes made during the storage motion. So, do it at your own descreptency.

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