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  • 1.  Failed to lock the file

    Posted Feb 03, 2020 12:38 PM

    I have esxi 5.1 standalone and there are 3 vm running on the esxi host. a virtual machine crashes on that host then ı reboot this vm . what is the problem. i get this warning on the host

    Lost access to volume

    57beefa6-e02fd332-e776-901b0e6c7e5c (datastore1)

    due to connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in

    progress and outcome will be reported shortly.

    info

    01.02.2020 20:24:40

    datastore1

    Message on appa-01: The operation on the file "/vmfs/

    devices/deltadisks/23bbc4f-vm-100-disk-1-s001-s001-s0-

    01-s001.vmdk" failed (Failed to lock the file). The file

    system where disk "/vmfs/devices/deltadisks/23bbc4f-vm

    -100-disk-1-s001-s001-s001-s001.vmdk" resides is full.

    Select Retry to attempt the operation again. Select

    Cancel to end the session.

    info

    01.02.2020 20:25:27

    appa-01

    User



  • 2.  RE: Failed to lock the file

    Posted Feb 03, 2020 12:48 PM

    did you lost connectivity with that datastore1 ? Please validate that.

    Also you can detached that disk from that VM and check it on another working VM if it's get full then you need to make free space on this disk.



  • 3.  RE: Failed to lock the file

    Posted Feb 03, 2020 01:12 PM

    You need to stop all activty on this datastore at once !!!

    Every further attempt to do anything on this datastore will either fail - if you are lucky - or make matters worse.

    The path /vmfs/devices/deltadisks/... has links to the delta.vmdks that are currently in use: either by a active VM or by a stale lock caused by a misbehaving automatic backup tool.

    Next thing to do: stop all VMs that use thin provisioning or snapshots and free up some space.