Hello All,
I have a VM which had to be hard reset because the storage (FC SAN) hosting the VM became unavailable for a few seconds. In fact I had to hard reset all VMs hosted on that shared storage. All other VMs except one came back online without much issues.
The VM (W2K) which failed had a single snapshot. This VM had 4 disks (created during the P2V). Of these 4 disks, here is how they were used:
disk0 --> OS disk. The delta disk for this disk also seems to have problems. Failed to clone using vmkfstools.
disk1 --> Application disk. Successfully cloned and merged the snapshot delta to a new disk. Has no problems.
disk2 --> Application disk. Successfully cloned and merged the snapshot delta to a new disk. Has no problems.
disk3 --> Data disk. The delta disk for this disk also seems to have problems. Failed to clone using vmkfstools.
VM hardware version: 7
ESXi version: 5.1
Filesystem: vmfs3.
The disks (disk0 & disk3) have a problem, and cannot be cloned using vmkfstools. When trying to clone the clone gets stuck at 8% and fails with the error: "Clone: 9% done.Failed to clone disk: Bad file descriptor (589833)".