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What is the underlying infrastructure? Shared storage? Local storage? If shared, what protocol? iSCSI? NFS?
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What is the underlying infrastructure? Shared storage? Local storage? If shared, what protocol? iSCSI? NFS?

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Hi,<br />
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We have an alarming problem with our VCenter. When we shut down machines, they become &quot;inaccessible&quot; and therefore cannot be turned back on again.<br />
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What would be the primary cause of this and could you remember any troubleshooting steps to take?<br />
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If we restart the machine from within the VM, the machine carries on working fine. Turning it off however, and this new &quot;inaccessible&quot; state change occurs.
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Hi,

We have an alarming problem with our VCenter. When we shut down machines, they become "inaccessible" and therefore cannot be turned back on again.

What would be the primary cause of this and could you remember any troubleshooting steps to take?

If we restart the machine from within the VM, the machine carries on working fine. Turning it off however, and this new "inaccessible" state change occurs.

VMs showing as inaccessible when we shut them down

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.