vim.fault.NotFound: No virtual machine found - WTH?

jibbajabba

Trying to shutdown some VMs through the command prompt and receive this on some VMs

vim.fault.NotFound: No virtual machine found with name: ./4c5c2446-0a0951d4-f1c3-003048f5af08/Replicated-23/Replicated-23.vmx

But

# ls -ls ./4c5c2446-0a0951d4-f1c3-003048f5af08/Replicated-23
total 8944000
     64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root          37 Aug  9 17:24 Replicated-23-245a1e5b.hlog
8931328 -rw------- 1 root root 42949672960 Aug 10 13:32 Replicated-23-flat.vmdk
     64 -rw------- 1 root root        8684 Aug 10 13:33 Replicated-23.nvram
     64 -rw------- 1 root root         549 Aug  6 19:08 Replicated-23.vmdk
      0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root           0 Aug  6 19:42 Replicated-23.vmsd
     64 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        2868 Aug 10 13:33 Replicated-23.vmx
     64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root         268 Aug 10 13:15 Replicated-23.vmxf
   2048 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       72828 Aug  7 00:05 vmware-24.log
   2048 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       67954 Aug  9 13:39 vmware-25.log
     64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       35470 Aug  9 14:13 vmware-26.log
   2048 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       66354 Aug  9 15:03 vmware-27.log
   2048 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       72461 Aug  9 17:24 vmware-28.log
   2048 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       71076 Aug 10 10:22 vmware-29.log
   2048 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       67810 Aug 10 13:33 vmware.log

How random ?

scott28tt

Is that VM running on the host you are running the command from, or is it perhaps running on a different host?

jibbajabba

scott28tt wrote: »

Is that VM running on the host you are running the command from, or is it perhaps running on a different host?

Doesn't matter as every host has access to the same LUNs (with DRS / HA enabled) . It works for 200 other VMs (3 host cluster) and only around 20 give me grief ..

You seem to be able to fix it with shutting down via client, remove from inventory and register using vmware-cmd rather than the datastore browser ..

Still really random as I had to do some VMs twice ... Pff ..

Sunshine_54

You can't power on/off a virtual machine from any host that has access to that LUN. It needs to be registered to that ESX server first.

vmware-cmd -l will list the registered virtual machines on that ESX server. If the VM is not listed there, then it's either a) not registered at all or b) registered on a different host.

If it's on a different host you would need to perform the power on/off operation from that host, or unregister and register it again on the host you are accessing.

jibbajabba

Edit: ignore me, you are right ..

scott28tt

Sunshine_54 wrote: »

You can't power on/off a virtual machine from any host that has access to that LUN. It needs to be registered to that ESX server first.

Hence me asking the question about which host the VM was on

Scott.