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Error Message Committing Changes to an Undoable Disk
Details
I get an error message when I try to commit changes to an
undoable disk. How can I get the changes to commit?
Solution
If you see an error message during the commit process, you can
rerun the commit in either of two ways.
Start the virtual machine again, and when you see the dialog
offering options for the undoable disk, click Commit.
Use the command-line vmkfstools --commitfile option, as described in the
section of the manual titled File System Management on SCSI Disks
and RAID.
Notes:
If the REDO log file is larger than 600MB, this process works
only on ESX Server 1.5 and higher.
Sometimes when a REDO log cannot be committed, the system may
have prompted you with a question that is still pending. The
system may not have found a console to write the question to, for
example. If this is the case, the error log reports a message
similar to this:
Jan 18 23:39:57: vmx| Msg_Question:
Jan 18 23:39:57: vmx| Question without a remote UI:
Run vmware-cmd answer, then recommit the file.
Keywords
204; vmfstool
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