Hi,
i got this error starting a VM into an ESXi server
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Failed to power on VM.
Could not power on VM : msg.vmk.status.VMK_NO_RESOURCES.
Current swap file size is 32768 KB.
Failed to extend swap file from 32768 KB to 131540 KB.
Current swap file size is 32768 KB.
Failed to extend swap file from 32768 KB to 132096 KB.
But...
1) The system has almos 20GB of RAM free
2) The VM i would start is a brand new with 2 GB of RAM and 20GB of disk space.
3) Storage... here is may it be the root cause.
Two Storage available directly attached to the ESXi Server
First of all we are talking about a DELL PowerEdge T420 server with 1 RAID 5 (with 3 disk of 1.8TB N-SAS) with a total capacity of 3.64TB + 1 RAID 1 of 136GB of SAS 15k disks
The Raid 5 is configured as just a single big partition (GUID Partition .... bios is booting in UEFI mode) of 3.64TB. ESXi says to me 1.90 TB available.
I've created the VM in the RAID 5 storage.
May it be that ESXi 5.5.0 support just 2TB of disk space?? (3.64TB - 1.90TB = 1.74TB occupated!)
If i rebuilt the DISK ARRAY having two virtual disk of 1.8TB would be better?
Thanks
Alberto