Hello,
one of our customers has a NetApp system exporting NFS datastores to his ESXi 5.0 environment.
All VMs are thin provisioned. Last night his single datastore ran out of space. Currently some of the VMs are displayed correctly in the inventory of the hosts (since vCenter crashed too), some are displayed as unknown 879 or some different number.
We extended the NFS datastore but the VMs are still in the unknown state. When we looked at the datastore, the VMs do have a 0 KB .vmx file with not entries in it.
We restarted the management agents and the hosts itself and tried to readd the .vmx to the inventory but no success.
How can we fix that or what happens when a thin provisioned VM runs out of space?
We appreciate your help.