I have an issue with a VMWare snaphot producing constant errors for a single VM which is hosted on a iSCSI zvol on my FreeNAS. As I have a periodic snapshot configured for this dataset I am receiving constantly emails with the following content:
Nov 10, 2019 · The Failed to lock the file error means that another process opens the file and that the process you are using cannot open the file correctly. This usually happens when you: Try starting a second virtual machine with the same virtual machine configuration. Turn on a virtual machine with built-in hard disks using the vmware-mount utility. usually you can find hints about errors like this in the VM's vmware.log file. I would guess that the physical disk structure is damaged and you may need to run chkdsk to fix it. I would guess that the physical disk structure is damaged and you may need to run chkdsk to fix it.