Hi folks.
I have a good sized ESX cluster, with about 20 hosts and Enterprise Plus licensing. I recently did a power down/up of my entire setup, and all but a handful of VMs came back up cleanly. About 5 of my virtual machines came up as "Invalid", and if I try to power them on, I get an error message saying "Failed to find a host for powering on the virtual machine".
Here's what I've tried. I'm working with just one of them now, assuming that once I find the magic bullet for the first one, the rest will be the same.
- Simply removing the VM from inventory and re-adding it (no change)
- Removing it, and adding it to a different cluster (no change)
- Removing it, adding it to a different cluster and different resource pool (no change)
Other VMs in the same datastore, on the same host and on the same resource pool came up with no issues. I'm looking at the vmware.log file in the datastore itself and the last thing that I see in there is the VM shutting down before my power cycle.
I've checked my alarms/settings on my actual hosts, and as far as I can tell it's not an HA issue, but I am definitely in over my head here. My current failover capacity is 9 hosts, and configured failover capacity is set to one host.
The VM itself is a simple config with 2 VCPU and 4GB of ram, and the cluster I'm trying to start it on has 10 hosts, 80 CPUs and 600GB of RAM.
I'm not sure what to try next. I can't edit the settings when I add the VM itself - the setting is not there. (All I have is a power on button, basically)
Any insight would really be appreciated. I'm a relative novice and I'm trying to troubleshoot a production environment as best I can without breaking anything. 
Thanks!