Failed to start the virtual machine. Module Disk power on failed.

[sebastiankonig]

Hello Everyone,

After a week I'm trying start my VM, which is on ESXi 6.0 and it's throwing an error. I didn't do any kind of changes. No snapshots taken, nothing i did.

Failed to start the virtual machine. Module Disk power on failed.

Thank you in advance.

[admin]

see below community link. hope it will help you

Module Disk power on failed

[narenotpp]

Error is informing you that virtual disk named INTERN HEV_1.vmdk is not found.

did you delete that manually from datastore browser by mistake?

or perhaps it's located at a different location, when was the last time you managed to power on this VM successfully? what did you do right before this issue started happening?

if this is an important VM, do you have backup of it, restore it from there.

[sebastiankonig]

I have made no changes on my VM like moving vmdk files to other datastore. I don't have a Backup of this VM. I didn;t create a Snapshot for it aswell.

[admin]

can  you see any process is running for the Vm machine . If yes then try to kill or restart the host.

please attach vmware.log file to do further investigation .

[sebastiankonig]

Hello,

Here is the log file. PFA

[daphnissov]

This is not the latest log file. The one to get is vmware.log but will require you to power off the VM.

Even without that, your log shows the following:

scsi0:1.fileName = "/vmfs/volumes/ec94fef8-be049fb6/INTERN HEV/INTERN HEV_1.vmdk"

You're using a VMDK called INTERN HEV_1.vmdk.

2018-01-16T11:04:36.275Z| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/ec94fef8-be049fb6/INTERN HEV/INTERN HEV_1-flat.vmdk" : open successful (524309) size = 512097312768, hd = 0. Type 3

And on the 16th, it was successfully opened residing on /vmfs/volumes/ec94fef8-be049fb6.

So between then and now something happened either to the file or to the location referenced by your VMX.

[daphnissov]

Also either show a screenshot of your VM's configuration or attach the VMX file. As the error message indicates, it's looking for a VMDK file that does not exist in the location which you showed in the datastore browser, so either it has been deleted or it exists in another location that the ESXi host cannot reach.

[sebastiankonig]

Hello,

Here is the VMX file. PFA

[daphnissov]

See my previous response. Your VM is using the _1 VMDK as the error indicates.

scsi0:1.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"

scsi0:1.fileName = "/vmfs/volumes/ec94fef8-be049fb6/INTERN HEV/INTERN HEV_1.vmdk"

scsi0:1.present = "true"

scsi0:1.redo = ""