Hi all,
On one of our ESX servers, we have a strange issue. The raid controller kicked all disks of his raid5. We have replaced the raid controller and the raid5 is back to normal.
Now it looks like the vmfs is corrupted. One of the virtual machines is missing his swap file. When we try to start it, it always complains about: "Could not power on VM: No swap file. Failed to power on VM"
Browsing the volume where the virtual machine is located:
\# ls
ls: machine1-728afd42.vswp: No such file or directory
machine1-flat.vmdk machine1.vmsd machine1.vmxf
and so on.
Trying to remove it:
\# rm machine1-728afd42.vswp
rm: cannot lstat `machine1-728afd42.vswp': No such file or directory
This kind of behaviour can normally be solved by fsck'ing the volume, but how can this be done on vmfs3?
Any help?
Wouter
PS: We're running VI3 with all patches applied.