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/etc/init.d/hostd restart

/etc/init.d/vpxa stop

/etc/init.d/vpxa start

An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM sub.domain.com.
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module DiskEarly power on failed.
Cannot open the disk ‘/vmfs/volumes/53e4e821-e97af688-8c82-40f2e9cd37aa/sub.domain.com/sub.domain.com-000002.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

/vmfs/volumes/53e4e821-e97af688-8c82-40f2e9cd37aa/sub.domain.com/sub.domain.com-000002.vmdk
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=3
encoding=”UTF-8″
CID=5fdb3838
parentCID=91a1b14e
isNativeSnapshot=”no”
createType=”vmfsSparse”
parentFileNameHint=”sub.domain.com-000001.vmdk”
# Extent description
RW 976777216 VMFSSPARSE “sub.domain.com-000002-delta.vmdk”

# Change Tracking File
changeTrackPath=”sub.domain.com-000002-ctk.vmdk”

# The Disk Data Base
#DDB

ddb.longContentID = “6d06c2adf18d4b5ca7ae92e65fdb3838″

/vmfs/volumes/53e4e821-e97af688-8c82-40f2e9cd37aa/sub.domain.com/sub.domain.com-000001.vmdk
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=3
encoding=”UTF-8”
CID=91a1b14e
parentCID=30b6f4a5
isNativeSnapshot=”no”
createType=”vmfsSparse”
parentFileNameHint=”sub.domain.com.vmdk”
# Extent description
RW 976777216 VMFSSPARSE “sub.domain.com-000001-delta.vmdk”

# Change Tracking File
changeTrackPath=”sub.domain.com-000001-ctk.vmdk”

# The Disk Data Base
#DDB

ddb.longContentID = “7b3898b4ec1820ab22f165ff91a1b14e”

/vmfs/volumes/53e4e821-e97af688-8c82-40f2e9cd37aa/sub.domain.com/sub.domain.com.vmdk
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=3
encoding=”UTF-8″
CID=91a1b14e
parentCID=ffffffff
isNativeSnapshot=”no”
createType=”vmfs”

# Extent description
RW 976777216 VMFS “sub.domain.com-flat.vmdk”

# Change Tracking File
changeTrackPath=”sub.domain.com-ctk.vmdk”

# The Disk Data Base
#DDB

ddb.adapterType = “lsilogic”
ddb.deletable = “true”
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = “60801”
ddb.geometry.biosHeads = “255”
ddb.geometry.biosSectors = “63”
ddb.geometry.cylinders = “60801”
ddb.geometry.heads = “255”
ddb.geometry.sectors = “63”
ddb.longContentID = “7b3898b4ec1820ab22f165ff91a1b14e”
ddb.thinProvisioned = “1”
ddb.toolsVersion = “9349”
ddb.uuid = “60 00 C2 9b 7c 5c a8 15-b2 03 9f dc ba 38 56 60”
ddb.virtualHWVersion = “8”

/vmfs/volumes/53e4e821-e97af688-8c82-40f2e9cd37aa/sub.domain.com/sub.domain.com.vmdk

CID=91a1b14e

replace to

CID=30b6f4a5

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create 119 test
vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get 119
vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall 119

• snapshot.create
• snapshot.dumpoption
• snapshot.get
• snapshot.remove
• snapshot.removeall
• snapshot.revert
• snapshot.setoption
• get.snapshotinfo

vim-cmd vimsvc/task_list
ManagedObjectReference) [
‘vim.Task:haTask-137-vim.VirtualMachine.consolidateDisks-516821853‘,
‘vim.Task:haTask-ha-host-vim.HostSystem.acquireCimServicesTicket-516825125’
]

watch -d -n 60 ‘vim-cmd vimsvc/task_info haTask-137-vim.VirtualMachine.consolidateDisks-516821853 | grep -E “name|entityName|state|progress”‘