The server was powered off abnormally, causing the virtual machine in esxi to be unable to power on,

[name8899]

The attachments are vmkwarning.log, vmkernel.log. Thanks for helping me analyze it.

2024-02-01T19:20:01.176Z cpu3:2100521)WARNING: HBX: 5498: Replay of journal <type 6 addr 11> on vol 'Data' failed: Lost previously held disk lock
2024-02-01T19:20:01.675Z cpu3:2100521)WARNING: HBX: 5498: Replay of journal <type 6 addr 11> on vol 'Data' failed: Lost previously held disk lock
2024-02-01T19:20:02.175Z cpu3:2100521)WARNING: HBX: 5498: Replay of journal <type 6 addr 11> on vol 'Data' failed: Lost previously held disk lock
2024-02-01T19:20:02.676Z cpu3:2100521)WARNING: HBX: 5498: Replay of journal <type 6 addr 11> on vol 'Data' failed: Lost previously held disk lock

How can I solve this problem? Please help me, thank you very much!

[CallistoJag]

You could try removing the VM from vCenter/ESXi inventory by unregistering it and then try re-registering it from the datastore .vmx file.

[Alfista_PS]

Hi,

you can also look if in the VM folder isnt a .lock file which lock the vmdk files (virtual disks) and then delete it.

[scott28tt]

Is this ESXi on ARM, or on x86?

[vFouad]

I think we need a little more info, have you tried any of the suggestions above?

Is this an ESXi on ARM specific issue, if not I can move this thread to the general ESXi section.

Is this local or shared storage, I see it is block storage?

Can you confirm there is free space on the datastore, I see it is a VMFS volume called Data, can you write new files to the datastore? (try the touch command in the ESX DCUI/SSH)

Have you run a VOMA check? This would check the Meta data consistency for the volume... it would also guide you on if there are stale/orphaned locks.  Again I'm only suggesting a check run... (voma -m vmfs -f check -d /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.xxxx:x)

Please let us know as we are all really excited to help out!

[name8899]

x86

[name8899]

I tried to unregister the virtual machine and re-registered the virtual machine, but it still failed to boot.

[name8899]

I have 5 virtual machines running on a single ESXI, but all of them cannot boot normally. There is no .lck file in the virtual machine I tested, and it still cannot be opened normally. Other virtual machines have .lck files, and I have renamed them .lck.bak. Still not working. my friend

[name8899]

x86,I still have a lot of data storage space. It is local storage. I cannot run the voma check because mine is VMFS_6 and voma does not support the VMFS_6 protocol. Thank you very much, my friend

[a_p_]

Which ESXi version do you currently run?

Maybe an update/patch will help. See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/60394

André

[name8899]

VMware ESXi 7.0.3 build-19482537
VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3

Yes, I've seen this solved too, but my version is too advanced to fix it. Is there a patch package for 7.0.3 that can help me fix it?

[a_p_]

With the version that you run, VOMA should work for VMFS6 datastores (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2036767).

Before trying to fix things using VOMA, make sure that you have a current backup of your VMs!!!

André