Hi,
Experiencing a strange issue today, DRS vMotioned a VM to another host and failed. Error was that it was unable to located the VM.vmdk file. It failed the VM back to the original host. VM is still running.
When browsing the datastore via vCenter, VMDK file is missing and it displays the -flat.vmdk file (you dont normally see the -flat.vmdk file via the datastore browser).
When listing the files via command line you do see all the vmdk and -flat.vmdk files.
So why would the files not display via the datastore browser? Is there a way to fix this without recreating the descriptor files, as the descriptor files does actually exist when viewing via command line and you can actually cat the files as well.