SCCMNoobster Posted February 18, 2014 Report post Posted February 18, 2014 Hi I am running VMWare 5.1 and have recently had an issue with a Virtual Server. It said that it needed consolidating and I deleted all the snapshots through snapshot manager and then told it too consolidate but it came up wih the following error “This virtual machine has more than 100 redo logs in a single branch of its snapshot tree. Deleting some of the snapshots or consolidating the redo logs will improve performance. The maximum number of redo logs supported is 255.” I followed this article http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2053489 and once all the files where moved over and I tried to run my server it basically just asked for all the files I moved over. I moved it back but now it gets to 95% and sits for 10 seconds and then says “An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM swan. Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/51deba60-4d1aaa96-0ce5-6cae8b3c9ac5/swan/swan-000178.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. The system cannot find the file specified VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/51deba60-4d1aaa96-0ce5-6cae8b3c9ac5/swan/swan-000099.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.” I checked and there is no swan-000099.vmdk but there is a swan-000099-delta.vmdk and swan-000099-ctk.vmdk. I tried editing the vmx file and pointing it to a different vmdk file but then it just comes up with other vmdk’s that are missing, if I point it too the main vmdk it says that it is not locked. I also read that I could select the server right click and remove it from inventory and then right click the vmdk and add it to the inventory but im a bit worried that will make it worse. The problem is that my backup server is also down at the moment so I can just recover a backup L Any help at all is appreciated.Hi I am running VMWare 5.1 and have recently had an issue with a Virtual Server. It said that it needed consolidating and I deleted all the snapshots through snapshot manager and then told it too consolidate but it came up wih the following error “This virtual machine has more than 100 redo logs in a single branch of its snapshot tree. Deleting some of the snapshots or consolidating the redo logs will improve performance. The maximum number of redo logs supported is 255.” I followed this article http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2053489 and once all the files where moved over and I tried to run my server it basically just asked for all the files I moved over. I moved it back but now it gets to 95% and sits for 10 seconds and then says “An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM swan. Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/51deba60-4d1aaa96-0ce5-6cae8b3c9ac5/swan/swan-000178.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. The system cannot find the file specified VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/51deba60-4d1aaa96-0ce5-6cae8b3c9ac5/swan/swan-000099.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.” I checked and there is no swan-000099.vmdk but there is a swan-000099-delta.vmdk and swan-000099-ctk.vmdk. I tried editing the vmx file and pointing it to a different vmdk file but then it just comes up with other vmdk’s that are missing, if I point it too the main vmdk it says that it is not locked. I also read that I could select the server right click and remove it from inventory and then right click the vmdk and add it to the inventory but im a bit worried that will make it worse. The problem is that my backup server is also down at the moment so I can just recover a backup L Any help at all is appreciated. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
