tekatie
Contributor
Contributor

Failed to power on virtual machine. Unable to enumerate all disks after uploading file.

Hi Guys,

Urgent need some help,

After uploading vm files to esxi 7 and power on the VM then the error appeared:

unable to enumerate all disks

Appreciate any assistance on this

 

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scott28tt
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Obvious questions, how did you "upload" and where did the VM come from?

 


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continuum
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Run
vmkfstools -i obscure-uploaded.vmdk esxi-compatible.vmdk -d thin
and try again.
If the command fails - provide the error message.
Or run
hexdump -C obscure-uploaded.vmdk | less
and show use the first screen of the hexdump output.

 

 


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virtsysadmin
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How Did you upload VM files to ESXi? Did you upload all the disks and attached to a new VM? Not clear when you mentioned after uploading files. 



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