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After upgrading VMware View from 4.6 to 5.0 desktop pools fails with the error message: Diskfault: Selected parent VM is not accessible

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Posted: 21 Nov, 2011
by: Troen L.
Updated: 21 Nov, 2011
by: Troen L.
Problem
We have observed this happening in environments where we're using VMware Composer with linked clones. It will prevent new VMs from being provisioned.

View Composer Diskfault: Selected parent VM is not accessible

If we look in the log files we will find messaged like these:
File [DataStoreName] VMName/sdd was not found
Provisioning error occurred for Machine VMName: Cloning failed for Machine
Error during provisioning: View Composer DiskFault: Disk Management Service is not available


Solution
After upgrading VMware View Composer at the vCenter Server you were not prompted to reboot the server and the upgraded Composer service would start working immediately after the upgrade was done. It seems that a reboot is still needed as it fixes this issue.

Related solutions
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1024566 Deploying a linked desktop pool fails with the error: Selected parent VM is not accessible
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1037379 Provisioning linked clones when using the French version of Windows 2008 64bit fails with the error: Selected parent VM is not accessible

document Placing virtual desktops into the right OU
document Using Trend Micro OfficeScan with VMware View virtual desktops
document Provisioning of desktops fails after adding new host to the cluster
document sdd was not found



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