VM cant power on, failed to lock the file

[jgorospe]

Hello everyone,

I have a VM where I can't power on, with the error failed to lock the file.



Regards,

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[PatrickLong · Accepted solution]

I would suggest the troubleshooting steps in this VMware KB article Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi hosts

It is most likely that another of your hosts has a lock on a file preventing the power-on of the vm..