VMware 6.5 can’t start VM after a host crash
After a migration of a VM one of my host machines has become very unstable and freezes from time to time. My plan is to address the issue this weekend but every time i reboot the host machine one of the VM’s is not starting and u have the following errors:
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed Object type requires hosted I/O Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/..../.....vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Module 'Disk' power on failed. Failed to start the virtual machine.
To solve the issue you need to check the .vmdk file and repair it. If you need to repair it is good to have a backup of the file just in case.
1. Enable SSH access to your ESXi host and login
2. Check the main .vmdk file if it corrupted or not
vmkfstools -x check /path/to/your/machine.vmdk
3. To repair the file type:
vmkfstools -x repair /path/to/your/machine.vmdk
4. Start you VM!
In my case:
[root@esx02:/vmfs/volumes/5b3a61e9-248e71e2-e165-0cc47ae7cfd1/machine] vmkfstools -x check machine.vmdk Disk needs repair. [root@esx02:/vmfs/volumes/5b3a61e9-248e71e2-e165-0cc47ae7cfd1/machine] vmkfstools -x repair machine.vmdk Disk was successfully repaired.
This help me few times last month so it’s here.
did not help… :-(…. because I was repairing the wrong file!!!! :-D
of course it works!
Thanks!
i saw the message that it didn’t work and wanted to ask you what was the message? but i just saw that you edited your post :)
I’m glad it worked, it always works for me so far, i hope it will always do.
Regards,
Nikola
Perfect, thank you so much!
hi very good answer an thank u a lot
Thank you good sir
This solved the problem I was having. Thank you for your post!
worked! thx, saved me a few days work
it not working for me, it says the DISK has no error
same DISK has mo errors