I can't power on a virtual machine (with linked disks) after the addition of new hosts of Lab Manager

ENVIRONMENT

-Lab Manager 3 using VC 3.5

-Initially the 2 hosts in a cluster and managed by LM

-Added new cluster with 2 new hosts in VC

-Two bunches pointing to the same NFS storage

PROBLEM

-When you try to turn on a computer in new cluster, I get a "requested file" "not found" error

RESULTS

-This seems to happen only when creating a virtual machine that has virtual disks of parent; most of our VMS is linked clones

-When you look at the log file, please see attachment, we found the following:

It is the location of the new virtual machine in the new host:

/vmfs/volumes/fabdf38d-beff047d/LMW2K3/2909/002909-T_XP_SP3_32b.VMDK

When you look at the hard, it points to the parent disk, but it seems that it does not:

/vmfs/volumes/6586c772-53eee1bb/LMW2K3/2904/002904-T_XP_SP3_32b.VMDK

Please note th volumen IDS are different and can not get the disc parent of the new machine.

SOLUTIONS?

Thank you

Jose

You should immediately stop using the new hosts otherwise creating new virtual machines can spoil the vmdk channels. Try http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005930.

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