Moving VM to new datastore failed, now vmdk files not found error

[Matt B]

Hello All,

I have an VMware ESXi v5.5.0 installation and using the vSphere client, I shut down the VM and used the datastore browser to move the VM folder from one datastore that was on a NAS (DST1) to a new datastore (DST2) on a local hard drive. There were two vdmk files that failed to move and any attempt to move them now give me an "...DNS/DNS1_2-000003.vmdk was not found" error. I'm confused because it shows me the file in the datastore browser, but give me this error when I try to move it. The VM cannot start because there are other vdmk's the have dependecies on this one.

Help!
Thanks,
Matt

 

[John2Evans]

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