Has failed unable to access file since it is locked?

Has failed unable to access file since it is locked?

The most often the “Unable to access file since it is locked” error appears when: Some files of a powered on virtual machine contain tags indicating that they are locked by other ESXi hosts; When virtual disks are added to the backup appliance and the backup session fails.

How do I fix VMware failed to lock the file?

Error 1: Failed to lock the file vmx file. Power on a virtual machine with mounted disks via the vmware-mount utility. Try to turn on a virtual machine through the user interface during a snapshot operation. Try to add a virtual disk to a virtual machine that is already in use.

Does disk consolidation require downtime?

Virtual disk snapshot consolidation is a very I/O intensive task and may require extended periods of heavy reads and writes. Consolidating snapshots during production hours may impact other virtual machines running on the same datastore.

Why do we do disk consolidation?

The warning ‘Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed’ in the Summary tab of a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere console means that when deleting a snapshot (using the option Delete or Delete All), the snapshot VMDK files or logs have not been deleted correctly (remain on the storage).

What is a disk consolidation?

CONSOLIDATE SNAPSHOT: Snapshot consolidation is useful when snapshot disks fail to compact after a Delete or Delete all operation or if the disk did not consolidate. This might happen, for example, if you delete a snapshot but its associated disk does not commit back to the base disk.

How do I know if my VMDK is locked?

Identifying the Locked File

1. Power on the virtual machine, this process should fail and display an error message.
2. Connect to the ESXi host the virtual machine is on with an SSH session.
3. Find the IP address of the host holding the lock by running vmfsfilelockinfo on the VMDK flat, delta, or sesparse file for VMFS, or the .

How do I unlock a VMDK file?

Power off or reset the backup server to see if that helps clear the lock.

1. Migrate or vMotion all virtual machines running on the ESXi/ESX host that created the lock to another ESXi/ESX host.
2. Stop the ESXi/ESX host that created the lock by either rebooting the host or executing: # vm-support -X.

How do I fix a corrupted VMDK file?

Method 1: Boot the Machine to Restore Corrupted VMDK File

1. Take the backup file of the original VMDK file.
2. Create the pointer of that file in the system.
3. Change the fields and then save the changes.
4. Now the boot the virtual machine to fix the damaged file.

How long should disk consolidation take?

You cannot work on your computer and defrag your computer at the same time. It is common for disk defragmenter to take a long time. The time can vary from 10 minutes to many hours, so run the Disk Defragmenter when you don’t need to use the computer!

How do I manually consolidate virtual machines?

Select a vCenter Server host or a cluster and click the Virtual Machines tab….Commit snapshots using the vSphere Web Client and HTML5 Client 6.x/7.x

1. Take a Snapshot. For more information, see the Take a Snapshot section in the vSphere Product Documentation .
2. Delete all Snapshots.
3. Consolidate Snapshots.

Why is disk consolidation unable to access file?

Disk Consolidation Needed – Unable to access file since it is locked After deleting snapshots on a VM either by deleting an individual snapshot or selecting “Delete All” snapshots, you may see the following warning for the VM, stating that disk consolidation is needed.

Why is disk consolidation for VM has failed?

Last evening we restarted receiving the error message on one of our VM’s that Disk consolidation for VM has failed: Unable to access file since it is locked Disk consolidation fails with the same error message. I checked and there are no snapshots for this particular VM, although we do use VEEAM as a backup solution.

Why do I have a locked disk in my VM?

Keep an eye on the hostd.log output while the snapshot consolidation task attempts to run, as any/all file lock errors will be displayed. In my instance, the file-lock error detailed in the Storage vMotion screenshot above is confirmed via the hostd.log output (below), and clearly shows the locked disk in question.

Can a snapshot deletion fail disk consolidation again?

However the consolidate operation may fail again, if the issue which caused the snapshot deletion operation to fail disk consolidation previously has not been cleared. It has been a good 6 months or more since I’ve last seen this issue, but today I found a VM with this issue in another customers environment.