VMs Fail To Power On After Power Outage
Points of My Scenario
1. A power outage caused ESXi hosts to power off forcefully
2. Now, when I attempt to power on VMs, I get the error "Unable to load configuration file '/vmfs/volumes/<guid>/hostname/hostname.vmx' "
How do I troubleshoot to resolve?
1. A power outage caused ESXi hosts to power off forcefully
2. Now, when I attempt to power on VMs, I get the error "Unable to load configuration file '/vmfs/volumes/<guid>/hostname/hostname.vmx' "
How do I troubleshoot to resolve?
Hello,
You can remove the vm from inventory. And then you go to the datastore and add the vm again. You select the .vmk file, right click, add to inventory.
Regards.
You can remove the vm from inventory. And then you go to the datastore and add the vm again. You select the .vmk file, right click, add to inventory.
Regards.
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Hi Andrew and RAFA: the files were present. Solution included the following steps:
1. Find which ESXi host was locking the files at the bash CLI of each host: command = "lsof | grep VMNAME.vmx.lck"
2. On the host returning a non-null result, find the process ID of the VM with locked file: command = "esxcli vm process list" - look for VMNAME in the output
3. Note the "World ID" (process ID for a VM) of the output for VMNAME in step 2
4. Terminate the process: command = "esxcli vm process kill -w 12345 -t soft", where '12345' is the "World ID" for the VMNAME obtained in step 2
The machine "VMNAME" returned to running state.
1. Find which ESXi host was locking the files at the bash CLI of each host: command = "lsof | grep VMNAME.vmx.lck"
2. On the host returning a non-null result, find the process ID of the VM with locked file: command = "esxcli vm process list" - look for VMNAME in the output
3. Note the "World ID" (process ID for a VM) of the output for VMNAME in step 2
4. Terminate the process: command = "esxcli vm process kill -w 12345 -t soft", where '12345' is the "World ID" for the VMNAME obtained in step 2
The machine "VMNAME" returned to running state.
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(You didn't mention it was a cluster and shared storage!)
(You didn't mention it was a cluster and shared storage!)
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My apologies, Andrew. I should have provided more details.
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Did you know I've written over 130 articles for Experts Exchange here
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and I've also now created a VMware Hancock's Half Hour Video series on vSphere 7.0.
This is Part 1.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/78972/HOW-TO-Install-and-Configure-VMware-vSphere-Hypervisor-7-0-U2-ESXi-7-0-2.html
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