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Insufficient permission to access file - VM Won't Start

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I have the pre-made ESXI VMprotect8 virtual machine running. I ran it on a trial and then inserted the keys when I purchased it. I have rebooted it a couple times during the trial and after without issue. The software runs fine in all regards.

I return from the holidays and I realize one of my 2 NFS stores (drives) that it uses as back destinations will not unmount or display in the web interface. So I try and reboot the VM. The VM will not shut down so I have to power it off.

I go to restart the VM and this is what I get

An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM Acronis Backup.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/0a56f9ab-87b0e662/Acronis Backup/Acronis Backup.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Insufficient permission to access file

Any ideas how I can recover this?

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Hello Steve,

Thank you for posting.

It is not clear at the moment what causes this issue. As a temporary workaround I would recommend editing the appliance settings and removing your local attached storage: /vmfs/volumes/0a56f9ab-87b0e662/Acronis Backup/Acronis Backup.vmdk

There is a similar post on VMware forums, you can take a look at it here. Most likely you will need to contact VMware support to address the NFS datastore issue.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.