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get my VM to open. I get: Reason: Failed to lock the file. Cannot open the disk 'vmfs/volumes/x/x/x.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks module snapshot power on failed it depends on. There are several solutions posted for this that tell you to delete the .lck files. I don't see any .lck files. I have 5 other VMs on the ESX host that work. I have been trying to replicate
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this VM with Veeam. It worked for a few months and then stopped working (the replication, not the VM). I checked again today to see if there were snapshots and it showed nothing. I created a snapshot to see if it would reveal the Consolidated Helper and it did. I deleted my snapshot and not the Consolidated Helper and the VM crashed, which was also the vCenter Server. When I pull it back up I get that error. Reply Subscribe View Best Answer vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. RELATED TOPICS: File lock by which user? File lock issue when folder is open VMWare: extra file in VM directory   22 Replies Jalapeno OP Ryan888 Sep 13, 2011 at 2:42 UTC More History: The initial error I received had Reason: 12 cannot allocate memory. I removed (but did not delete) the disk that I use as the e:drive, since it is large, 1TB. After that, I could open the VM. I shut it down, reattached the disk, opened again and got the file lock error. 0 Habanero OP B-C Sep 13, 2011 at 2:52 UTC looks like you're going to be doing a vmdk restore process... yuck! unless you have a decent backup! 0 Jalapeno OP Ryan888 Sep 13, 2011 at 3:11 UTC I don't have a recent backup because of this problem. How do I do a vmdk restore? 0 Habanero OP Helpful Post B-C Sep 13, 2011 at 3:29 UTC hopefully other have had to do something recently... last time I was able to use a delta because I had done several snapshots... gave me at least a base even though I lost my changes.. vmdk restores have all sorts of options but there are a couple of vmware experts on here that might know a few more options before you have to go that route... was just hoping they'd chime in.... 0 Tha
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Post navigation ← Previous Next → vSphere/Veeam : "Unable to access file since it is locked" Posted on 07/04/2013 by Florent B. — 5 Comments ↓ Sometimes the backup infrastructure can make me crazy. Two virtual machines that run on our vCenter/ESXi infrastructure was showing me this nice error this morning: "Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed.". This is a nice information and VMware has a pop-up menu to "Consolidate" and fix the error. The problem is that the virtual machine was crashing every time that I've tried to consolidate and wasn't able to finish without the error: Unable to access file