https://www.nico-maas.de/tags/vmdk/ Recent content in VMDK on Nico Maas Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:00:54 +0000 https://www.nico-maas.de/posts/2018-06-29-cannot-start-virtual-machine-on-esxi-6-5/ Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:00:54 +0000 https://www.nico-maas.de/posts/2018-06-29-cannot-start-virtual-machine-on-esxi-6-5/ <p>As described by JC-LAN, I had a lot of trouble with one particular &ldquo;special&rdquo; VMDK on a ESXi 6.5 system, which did not start after a reboot of the ESXi host.</p> <p>The power-on failed with &ldquo;File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[&hellip;] failed&rdquo; - however in the end it just gave me the overall error that it failed to start the machine. As it turned out, the VMDK was corrupted.</p> <p>1.) Enable SSH on the ESXi host with the corrupted VMDK - and login</p>