Some of the VMs on several of my ESXi 5.1 server are starting to fail. They give errors about not being able to use the file system when I try and start them. Worse, I can't even delete these VMs and get a "general system" error when I attempt to remove them (see error message details below).
Does anyone have any suggestions about what I can do to resolve these issues? I find it hard to believe that this is from disks going bad since this is happening on more than one ESXi host which are using different storage devices.
Is there a way to delete these VMs? I have tried placing the ESXi host into maintenance mode but that doesn't help. I still get errors trying to delete files from the datastore.
Here is the error I get when trying to start a failed VM:
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Here is the error I see when trying to delete a failed VM:
