I am running a vma 5.1 on every esx 5.1 host in a local store with installed APC shutdown software. Everything worked fine for some weeks
I did a backup of the vma with veeam after installing every software.
Also after shutdown and rebooting this vma everything works.
So i didnt touch this vma for some while.
Today I go to vma console which was running and made a reboot of the vma
After that the vma is hanging with a fsck error
>> Activating swap device in /etc/fstab >> failed
fsck failed. Please repair manuelly.
I tried this but there are so many inode errors, so there is no way to repair.
So I tried to restore the vma from veeam backup which was working, but still the same error in this old backuped vma. I am sure that the backup is ok.
.Tried restore to different datastore. Same problem
Datastore are perfect, I have this probem only with vmA´s.
I tried to reboot a different vma on a different host and got the same problem
It looks like that if the vma is to old or running to long , its damaged after reboot or restore .
Any help ?
P.S.
I had the same problem a few monthes ago with vma 5.0.2.
The only solution was to deploy a new vmA an make everything new.
But I dont want to make a new vma every 3 month,
I found that all my vmA which are running on local store with vmfs-5 have this problem, all other vma´s which are running on a nfs store have no problem
But the local store is ok ,because I have some working windows VMs without problems