Invalid guest after snapshot delete

[cp15]

All-

I ran into a little trouble. Was wondering if any you have seen this and if there is a fairly easy solution.

We have a Linux guest running in ESX 2.5up3 managed by VC 2.5up2. As a precaution I snapshotted the Linux guest in case something blew up with the new VMWare tools install. I figured I would go one further and clone the machine. So I deleted the snapshot. After deleting the snapshot the guest appears as "Guestname (Invalid)" in inventory and I cannot manage it. The guest is still up and running, thankfully, but I do need to take care of this quickly.

Anyone ever run into this before?

Thanks-

Chad Pranger

[rmacdonaldnai · Accepted solution]

I ran into this same issue myself. I was able to resolve it by removing the vm from inventory and then browse the datastore the vm is on and reregister. The vm appeared in VC as valid and I was then able to boot it.

Rich

[cp15]

This did the the trick. Remove from inventory, SSH in and shut down to unlock the files, browse to vmx file, readd machine to inventory, power up. I think this happened due to the VMWare tools install being initiated during the snapshot operations.

Thanks-

Chad