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  • 1.  A vmotion process died at 29 % - how to unlock the VM ?

    Posted Jul 01, 2013 12:18 PM

    A vmotion process died at 29 % - now I have one VM directory at location A and one at location B.
    I can not start any of them as the vmdks are locked by owner 000...

    How can I kill the process that locks the vmdks ?
    The host that was running the VM still has a world-id for the VM but if I try to kill it - it says the process does not exist



  • 2.  RE: A vmotion process died at 29 % - how to unlock the VM ?

    Posted Jul 01, 2013 01:03 PM

    Delete .lck files on VM and power ON.



  • 3.  RE: A vmotion process died at 29 % - how to unlock the VM ?

    Posted Jul 01, 2013 01:18 PM

    So this was a vMotion with migrating host and storage!?

    Restarting the Management Agents on the hosts should kill any processes which lock the files.

    André



  • 4.  RE: A vmotion process died at 29 % - how to unlock the VM ?

    Posted Jul 01, 2013 04:14 PM

    I had to do it the hard way ...
    I had to kill the management services but that was not enough.So we had to move all other VMs from that host elsewhere and reset the ESXi.
    A gentle reboot was impossible



  • 5.  RE: A vmotion process died at 29 % - how to unlock the VM ?

    Posted Jul 01, 2013 03:41 PM

    can you provide the hostd logs of source and destination ESXi host after recreating the issue