Disk Read Error After Vmware Converter
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Join the Community! Creating your account only takes a few minutes. Join Now I was running ESXi 4.1 host on an old HP DL360 G5 with RAID 5 (3 disks). One of the disks has failed and when I got a replacement, I've found out that another is failing as well. So instead of
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rebuilding RAID5 I have build RAID0 of two healthy disks (gives me same capacity as RAID5) and installed ESXi
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4.1 on the new RAID0 Before I build the new RAID I've copied my VM files from the datastore so that I have my nvram, vmdk (both, descriptor and virtual disk), vmsd, vmx and vmxf files, even the log files. Then I copied them all back to a new datastore, imported vmx files to the inventory but when I try to start the VM is hangs on "Disk Read Error has Occurred. Press Ctl+Alt+Del to https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1033243 restart". I can start the same VM on my VMWare Player with no issues. I've tried changing Disk Controller from BusLogic to SCSI, tried creating new virtual disk of the same size (vmkfstools -c 100G new.vmdk) and then changing new.vmdk to point to my original virtual disk, but it didn't help Reply Subscribe View Best Answer   11 Replies Serrano OP ErikFest Apr 28, 2013 at 4:29 UTC Maybe your other physical disks on this VM Host are shot too? Bad sectors and whatnot? Can you try other disks? Do https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/330153-disk-read-error-has-occurred-press-ctl-alt-del-to-restart-esxi-4-1 you have / Can you get spares? By the fact they boot in Player I think (I could be wrong) it's safe to assume your VM's are okay. 0 Mace OP Texkonc Apr 28, 2013 at 4:35 UTC You never want to run your Hypervisor on Raid0. It is just as reliable as Raid5 during a rebuild. You can not stand a single drive loss in Raid0 like you can in Raid5. Still a 3 drive Raid5 is the devil. What happened to you with the Raid5 rebuild is about par for Raid5. The load increases and one of the other drives says F U I am done. Then you lost all, just like if you were running all 3 in Raid0 for production and drive failed. Since you only have 3 drives, your Hypervisor doesn't change much, so it would be better to mirror that and Raid10 your SAN array. 0 Serrano OP LarryCK Apr 29, 2013 at 4:27 UTC ErikFest wrote: Maybe your other physical disks on this VM Host are shot too? Bad sectors and whatnot? Can you try other disks? Do you have / Can you get spares? HP diagnostics did not find anything wrong with the two disks I build RAID0 on. No, I'm afraid this is al I have to work with. 0 Serrano OP LarryCK Apr 29, 2013 at 4:34 UTC Thanks Texkonor, I'm afraid I lost you towards the end of your post. I do understand RAID5 benefits over RAID0 but I only have two physical disks to work with, the third drive is failing and using it would give unpredictable results. B
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