Our main web server VM (WEB-PROD-01) is
offline after last night's scheduled host reboot. The website is down.
I've been trying for 20 minutes. Please help ASAP.
--- System Log Excerpt ---[08:14:02] Hypervisor host reboot completed successfully[08:14:18] VM WEB-PROD-01: Failed to start — error code 0x80004005[08:14:18] VM WEB-PROD-01: Cannot find virtual hard disk file[08:14:18] Path: D:\VMs\WEB-PROD-01\disk.vhdx — file not found[08:14:19] All other VMs started successfully
Diagnose and resolve ↓
The VM fails to start with 'Cannot find virtual hard disk file.' What is the most likely root cause?