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iohr
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‎02-11-2013 06:08 AM

VM is Maked as Invalid - How to restore this VM to Operation?

Hi,

We have a VM that is showing as:

(Invalid) <vm-name> in the Hosts & Clusters view.

I have had a look at the ESXi Host's /var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxa.log file and it shows entries such as:

2013-02-11T10:19:07.625Z [FFF8BB90 verbose 'Default' opID=3CBC4ABD-0000449E-6a] [VpxaVmprov::VmRegistered] VM (/vmfs/volumes/d202ea55-7ca0949a/oms2.ipt/oms2.ipt.vmx) is discovered, but is still initializing...
2013-02-11T10:19:07.625Z [FFF8BB90 error 'Default' opID=3CBC4ABD-0000449E-6a] [VpxaVmprov::VmRegistered] Bad connection state (invalid) for registered vm (/vmfs/volumes/d202ea55-7ca0949a/oms2.ipt/oms2.ipt.vmx)
2013-02-11T10:19:07.625Z [FFF8BB90 verbose 'Default' opID=3CBC4ABD-0000449E-6a] [VpxaVmProv::VmRegistered] Skipping processsing for vm path '/vmfs/volumes/d202ea55-7ca0949a/oms2.ipt/oms2.ipt.vmx', invalidVm: true, null config: true.

Attached is the vmx file for the VM.

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vmroyale
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‎02-11-2013 06:19 AM

See if kb 1003742 helps.

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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iohr
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‎03-14-2013 02:56 AM

In the end, we raised a call with VMWare directly. After their engineer removed and tried to re-add the VM to the host, she decided to just create a new vm and attach the old disk to the new VM. This solved the problem, but VMWare were unable to find out exactly why it was being marked as invalid. The suspicion from them was the vmx file had something invalid in it. The engineer could not tell me what though.

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