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Not having any other evidence: major storage fault
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Not having any other evidence: major storage fault

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Resolved by restoring descriptor file
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Hi Guys<br />
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We recently came across with a problem with a couple of VMs which we restarted or shutdown or vmotion, the VM would not start up due to missing filename.vmdk file (the descriptor file missing).<br />
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We did fix the problem, but we would like to know what would have caused this? Not all VMs were affected, only a couple.<br />
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Would be good if we had some reasons why this had happened.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Goraek
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Hi Guys

We recently came across with a problem with a couple of VMs which we restarted or shutdown or vmotion, the VM would not start up due to missing filename.vmdk file (the descriptor file missing).

We did fix the problem, but we would like to know what would have caused this? Not all VMs were affected, only a couple.

Would be good if we had some reasons why this had happened.

Thanks
Goraek

VM descriptor file missing

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