Hi Vmware community,
I'm having a huge problem with a vm hosted on a 5.1 Esxi free.
I’ve deleted 2 old snapshots then created a new one before doing a huge upgrade of the CRM installed on that VM.
But after doing the (powered off) new snapshot, the VM didn’t start anymore !
I’m having a white non-blinking underscore in the top left corner.
And OF COURSE, I have no up to date backup !!!
Watching at the events, I saw I’m having an issue with the deleted snapshots. The files are still there (SRV-SAG-00001.vmdk, SRV-SAG-00002.vmdk …), but not anymore in the snapshot UI !
And now I can see the Esx complaining about a consolidation needed form that VM.
So I tried to do that consolidation, with the UI and in command line, but it failed each time at the end.
I tried to add/delete a new snapshot (UI/cmd), but it failed.
I’ve installed a Vcenter appliance to manage the esxi host and tried to clone the VM, but it also failed again.
I’ve realized that the *.vmsd file was nearly empty, so I recreated it, without more success.
My situation is really bad now, I need some help.
Anyone?
