I tried to copy a virtual machine from one esxi hypervisor to another (i shut down the source vm prior to this). after doing so i tried to start the vm on the new hypervisor. as usually i got the question if i copied or moved to machine. after clicking the "copied" option, I got an error message that the hypervisor could not find the HDD '/vmfs/volumes/5bc99a5c-04297743-4306-509a4c929e71/edoosys/edoosys/edoosys-000001.vmdk' or one of it's snapshot files could not be found. Indeed the file 'edoosys-000001-delta.vmdk' was missing. I copied it again to the datastorage, but the hypervisor keeps deleting this file and complaining the the vmdk is incomplete.
Hello Ingrid and welcome to the forums!
How are you trying to copy the VM from one host to the other?
A supported and the recommended way to do this is via the ovftool command line tool.
You can find a detailed write-up e.g. here: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/06/how-to-copy-vms-directly-between-esxi.html
Andreas
That looks like the source VM had one or more of its VMDK-files assigned via an absolute path.
I would suggest you check and if necessary adjust the paths in the vmx-file and then reregister the VM.