ESXifilelock

2022年1月9日 — First, using an SSH client, connect to the ESXi host for the problem VM. · Now, go to the directory with the virtual machine files: cd /vmfs/ ...

2023年2月14日 — The cause is very often a locked VMDK file or CBT file (changed block tracking used by backup software) by a different ESXi than the one running ...

2022年1月12日 — 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 .UUID.

2021年8月3日 — VMware virtual machine file lock on VMFS datastore (84475) · 1- Run the below command # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep -i VM_Name VIM.PNG · 2- ...

2019年8月22日 — Report the MAC address of the lock holder by running this command (except on an NFS volume) # vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/UUID/VMDIR/LOCKEDFILE.

2023年5月2日 — I have a broken VM on my ESXi Server, after looking for the reason the VM isn't starting I found 4 files locked for some reason even when ...

2021年6月9日 — vmfsfilelockinfo is inbuilt tool on ESX server to check which host is holding the lock on VM files. To prevent concurrent changes to virtual ...

2023年3月28日 — When running ' vmkfstools -D ' on the files, I'm seeing that all the files except .vmdk and vmware-#.log files have a type 1 lock including the ...

Disks or any other can be locked in such incidents and this is a quick and easy way to identify the owner of the file lock, which means who is not letting your ...

In a VMFS volume sometimes these files stay locked even when they are not in use (possibly when a VM was not stopped properly). This doesn't happen often, but ...