Virtual Machine disk descriptor file is missing:
We performed vmotion of a virtual machine (VM1) and had a strange incident (errors) faced.
Relocate virtual machine
Status: The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on.
Error stack:
The source detected that the destination failed to resume.
The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on.
Power On virtual machine
Status: File /vmfs/volumes/<datastore>/VM1/VM1.vmdk was not found
Error stack:
An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM VM1
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module 'Disk' power on failed.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/<datastore id>/VM1/VM1.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
The system cannot find the file specified
File system specific implementation of Lookup[file] failed
File system specific implementation of Lookup[file] failed
File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
File system specific implementation of Lookup[file] failed
VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes//<datastore>/VM1/VM1.vmdk ". Verify the path is valid and try again.
When we browse to check the files in datastore>VM folder, there was no VM1.vmdk of the virtual machine and we can see VM1-flat.vmdk and VM1-ctk.vmdk files?????
We have re-created the VM1.vmdk file and brought VM live in production (as mentioned in the link),
My Question is:
What could be the reason for vmdk descriptor file is missing???
How all these days it was working fine without any issue??
