Today, I found that one of my VM hosted in ESXi 3.5 cannot be started, the error in /var/log/messages was
Mar 14 00:56:21 vmkernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 14 00:56:21 vmkernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3861848, high=0, low=3861848, sector=3861841
Mar 14 00:56:21 vmkernel: 0:01:22:52.747 cpu2:1026)LinBlock: 1926: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 3861841
Mar 14 00:56:21 vmkernel: 0:01:22:52.763 cpu2:1150)StorageMonitor: 196: vmhba1:0:0:0 status = D:0x0/H:0x3 0x0 0x0 0x0
Mar 14 00:56:21 vmkernel: 0:01:22:52.763 cpu2:1150)SCSI: 4863: path vmhba1:0:0: Forcing host status TIMEOUT to NO_CONNECT
Mar 14 00:56:21 Hostd: [2011-03-14 00:56:21.375 'BaseLibs' 81926 info] DISKLIB-LIB : RWv failed ioId: #12386 (327689) (9) .
Mar 14 00:56:21 Hostd: [2011-03-14 00:56:21.375 'BaseLibs' 81926 warning] [NFC ERROR] Read failed curSector = 6232064, nSectors = 512 :An error was detected (327689).
Mar 14 00:56:21 Hostd: [2011-03-14 00:56:21.375 'BaseLibs' 81926 warning] [NFC ERROR] NfcFile_ContinueSend: read failed
Mar 14 00:56:21 vmkernel: 0:01:22:52.803 cpu0:1370)DevFS: 2307: Unable to find device: 2c75e-VM-000001-delta.vmdk
I try to copy both -delta.vmdk and -flat.vmdk using cp command, but stil got error
cp: Read Error: Input/output error
cp: Write Error: No space left on device
It seems the VMFS was corrupted, but I cannot figure-it how to recover this VM.
Any idea will be appreciated.