There was a drop to the back end storage that caused a symptom that I would describe as close to a power loss. Three VM's out of several rebooted and when they were coming back up they power on but do not boot. They come to a black screen with a solid white cursor. If you attempt to clone the specific VMDK file from the command line using vmkfstools -i filname.vmdk clone.vmdk you receive an error message of Failed to clone disk :Bad file descriptor (589833).
We have attempted to run vmware-vdiskmanager -R against the disk and it says that all is well. We have also tried to mount it using vmare-mount from a remote machine. The command is able to find the disk but indicates there is something that is causing it not to be able to be mounted. A file in use or somethings similar. Even though when we do this there isn't another VM using the file and that the original VM is powered off.
Running vmkfstools -x check filename.vmdk also says the disk is healthy.
The disk cannot be mounted to another VM. As soon as it is mounted to another VM, the VM has the same problem booting.
This leads us to believe that the file itself may be corrupt and has an issue. Any assistance to get this data back would be much appreciated as it is production critical and our latest replica or backup of this VM is far enough out we would like to recover from this VMDK if at all possible.
Thanks again.