Failed to start the virtual machine
When
you try to Power On a virtual machine, you will receive the below error:
“Failed
to start the virtual machine.
Module
DevicePowerOn power on failed.
Unable
to create virtual SCSI device for scsi…”
Cause
You
might have tried to PowerOn a VM with ESXi incompatible vmdk file. This VMDK
file will be compatible only with VMware workstation, VMware servers etc and
not with the ESXi.
Resolution
Make
the vmdk file compatible with ESXi.
Steps:
- Remove
the vmdk file from the VM. (Only from the VM!!!)
- Connect
to the ESXi box using putty
- Execute
the below command to convert the existing vmdk file to new ESXi compatible vmdk
vmkfstools -i existing_vmdk_location
new_vmdk_location
- Point
the VM with the newly formatted vmdk file and Power On. That’s it….
Very useful, thanks. :)
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