Good morning. I have a support ticket open with VMware: 15834814212
I was doing some routine host maintenance so I was using vMotion to evacuate VMs. I got an error on one particular host:
Migrate virtual machine GVMon Failed waiting for data. Error 195887167. Connection closed by remote host, possibly due to timeout.
Most information for the error points to a vMotion networking problem, but since the other VMs migrated w/o issues, I decided this was not the cause.
I powered the VM down and was able to move it to another host. However, when powering it on I got this error:
Power On virtual machine GVMon File GVvCenter_2.vmdk was not found.
Sure enough, when browsing the datastore, that file does not exist.
Support says that the file has been missing for a few weeks,crazy that the VM continued to run. They do not have an explanation for why it happened. No orphaned objects were found and all troubleshooting points to everything being OK. I'm told that the .vmdk descriptor file needs to be re-created, but that would require a UUID that is not available because the .vmdk descriptor file is not accessible. Catch 22!
Any ideas? Thank you, Zach.