Hi,
I have a VM which is refusing to power off, with error "another task is in progress"
I have tried:
> esxcli vm process list
Z-VRA-svr-vmhost-05.gb.vo.local
World ID: 12930751
Process ID: 0
VMX Cartel ID: 12930750
UUID: 42 28 d6 b5 ba e8 82 86-89 48 00 5a f4 4c 98 a1
Display Name: Z-VRA-svr-vmhost-05.gb.vo.local
Config File: /vmfs/volumes/4cd16e5c-fa5e9173-4bbe-001b2171bc00/Z-VRA-svr-vmhost-05.gb.vo.local/Z-VRA-svr-vmhost-05.gb.vo.local.vmx
> esxcli vm process kill –type=force –world-id=12930751
But the VM is still present on the next run of process list.
I then tried to kil it with ps:
> ps |grep Z-VRA
| 12930751 | vmm0:Z-VRA-svr-vmhost-05.gb.vo.local |
12930760 12930750 vmx-vcpu-0:Z-VRA-svr-vmhost-05.gb.vo.local /bin/vmx
> kill -9 12930750
sh: can't kill pid 12930750: No such process
> kill -9 12930760
sh: can't kill pid 12930760: No such process
> kill -9 12930751
sh: can't kill pid 12930751: No such process
Finally I followed VMware KB: Collecting information about tasks in VMware ESXi/ESX
/vmfs/volumes # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
Vmid Name File Guest OS Version Annotation
53 Z-VRA-svr-vmhost-05.gb.vo.local [VMFS-500GB-Production6] Z-VRA-svr-vmhost-05.gb.vo.local/Z-VRA-svr-vmhost-05.gb.vo.local.vmx ubuntuGuest vmx-10
And this showed me that there is a stuck task associated:
/vmfs/volumes # vim-cmd vmsvc/get.tasklist 53
(ManagedObjectReference) [
'vim.Task:haTask-53-vim.VirtualMachine.reset-354981370'
]
So now what, how do I kill the process associated with that task? There must be a way other than rebooting the host.