Hey,
our ESX-Host crashed yesterday and since then one VM on it doesn´t start. The error messages vSphere gives are:
"Cannot power on VM. a general system error occurred:
Error message from ESX-Host: Cannot open the disk "xxxx-000002.vmdk" or one of the snapshot disks it depends on."
and
"Cannot power on VM. a general system error occurred:
Error message from ESX-Host: Cannot open the disk "xxxx_5-000004.vmdk" or one of the snapshot disks it depends on."
For each disk I have one flat.vmdk and multiple delta.vmdk files. The Snapshots don´t show up in the snapshot manager and I can´t consolidate them either (through vSphere or SSH).
I already searched Google and the forum here and found similar problems, but nothing helped in my case
Unfortunately the backup, that should have happened over the weekend failed with a similar error.
The .vmsd file is empty, is there any way to recreate it?
Can I somehow merge the delta and flat files?
Can simply renaming the delta.vmdk files be helpful? I have a feeling that´s not the case
The .vmdk descriptor files are also missing.
I don´t have much experience with vmware disk management, so I would be thankful for every suggestion.
Thanks