Posts Tagged ‘VM greyed out’
vSphere 5.1 and VMs Inaccessible After NAS downtime
March 6th, 2013 | 
Author: Tonight my home-built Nexenta-VM decided to reboot itself during my nightly backup cycle. Not too nice, but it recovered without too much hassle by itself. Even though the NFS shares were available again, my vSphere 5.1 environment now has a pretty large number of VMs that have become grayed out (Inaccessible), even though they are still accessible on the NAS shares. Easily solved, if you know how…
What it looks like
We start with an email I found in my Inbox, stating that my Nexenta-VM had a problem and was rebooted at 1:26AM. After the reboot all the shares became available again, but my vSphere environment was left in a mess: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Storage, VMware | 
Tags: NAS down, NAS downtime, NAS failure, reload VM, Skipping invalid VM, VM grayed out, VM greyed out, VM inaccesible, VM inaccessible, VMs grayed out, VMs greyed out | 
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