Unlock the VMware VM vmdk file - blog.fouadtech.com
blog.fouadtech.com › 2020 › 09Sep 24, 2020 · If you know that the vm is stopped then you need to find the ESX server that has the files locked and then stop the process that is locking the file (s). 1. Logon to the ESX host where the VM was last known to be running. 2. vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/path/to/file to dump information on the file into /var/log/vmkernel