Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are they working ok?
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX to power the box down. I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM. I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following error: VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't simply reboot in the middle of the day. I've cruised through /var/log/messages, and found messages like this: Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-GetLDList-ProcessLibCommandCall failed; rval = 0x8017 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Volume Cannot get logical disk data from controller 0 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Read config failed 0 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 logical device 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Any thoughts and pointers much appreciated. Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
