Hey all.. looking for some assistance. Client has a physical server with just one SBS 2008 VM. We replaced a failed drive in a local RAID5 (the only storage) which went fine. About two hours later we noticed the VM was very slow and we couldn't fully RDP into it (session opened but desktop would not load). We had to power it off and we rebooted the host. The host hung at a red kernel panic and none of the drives were lit up. What's weird is we can pull the power, what five mins, plug in power and the drives come alive and ESXi boots fine. Once up all hardware reports OK and the datastore is accessible. We can even create a new folder, delete files, etc. However, when we tried to start the VM initially we got the following error:
"Failed to power on VM
Could not power on VM : Invalid metadata."
Per a VMware KB, we set a memory reservation equal to the amount or RAM on the VM and it powers up. Except it sits at black screen with a curser in the upper left corner.
If we remove the disks to VM powers on and goes to OS not found which of course is expected.
My first thought was something is something got corrupt with the VMDK. However, if I try and create a new VM on the local VMFS datastore I get:
"A general system error occured: Error creating disk Invalid argument"
We have a laptop attached running Ubuntu serving up a temp NFS store. I can create a new VM to that without issue. So I am not sure if the issue is actually the VMDK, the local datastore, or both. Any ideas? Suggestions for moving forward?
Thanks!