My building had an unexpected power interruption and my ESXi 6.0.0 host was shut down. After starting up, one of my VM won't boot up (the most important one). Here is the full error message:
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Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module Disk power on failed.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/.../dataserver.SouthBay.local/dataserver.SouthBay.local_1.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
The system cannot find the file specified
VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/.../dataserver.SouthBay.local/dataserver.SouthBay.local_1.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.
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I look at Datastore Browser and I see files below"
dataserver.SouthBay.local.nvram
dataserver.SouthBay.local.vmx
dataserver.SouthBay.local.vmdk (very large size)
dataserver.SouthBay.local.vmxf
dataserver.SouthBay.local.vmsd
dataserver.SouthBay.local-ctk.vmdk
vmware.log
vmware-50.log
vmware-51.log
vmware-52.log
vmware-53.log
I'm fairly new to ESXi and I am not exactly sure where or how to start on this. I did some research and I think I have a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file. Any advice is much appreciated.
VM Version: 11
James C.