VMware: Creating VM failed on NETAPP NFS datastore from ESXi or vCenter

摘要: This article discusses issues seen with running VMs on a NETAPP Datastore connected to an ESXI host or cluster.

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症狀

  • It is an NFS storage device, and the NFS share folder is mounted to an ESXi host.
  • VM creation fails on this NFS datastore but no issues seen on a VMFS datastore.
  • When logging in to the ESXi host command line with root testing the reads and writes on the NFS datastore show no issues.
  • The NFS export permissions are all good from the NETAPP storage.
  • The VM creation log states "Failed to lock the vmx file."

原因

The NetApp Fpolicy causes this issue with providing a lock on the storage.

解析度

It is not a ESXi problem, check if the "NetAPP Fpolicy" is enabled or not on the storage OS. If enabled this function blocks the "lck" lock file from being created during the VM creation or power on.

Disable the Fpolicy, and the VM actions on the NFS datastore work as expected.

受影響的產品

VMware ESXi 7.x, VMware ESXi 8.x
文章屬性
文章編號: 000220840
文章類型: Solution
上次修改時間: 13 6月 2025
版本:  2
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