Unable to power on Virtual Machine restored to disk storage and imported in a vSphere (ESXi) environment.

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Article ID: 100041886

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Description

After successfully restoring a virtual machine to local storage and importing it into vSphere (vCenter / ESXi), the VM will not boot.

 

Error Message

Failed to open disk scsi0: Unsupported or invalid disk type 7: Ensure that the disk has been imported.

 

Cause

When a VMDK (virtual disk) is restored to a local volume the disk type is changed.

 

Resolution

Restore the VM directly back to the vSphere environment (vCenter / ESXi).

Workaround: Use VMware Converter to import the VM that was restored to a local volume to the vSphere (vCenter / ESXi) environment. 

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1028943

Issue/Introduction

Failed to open disk scsi0: Unsupported or invalid disk type 7: Ensure that the disk has been imported.
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