Unable to Power ON the VM with an RDM Disk attached on the WSFC Node.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

While Powering on the VM getting an error  "File system specific implementation of Ioctl[file] failed Failed to start the virtual machine. Module 'Disk' power on failed. Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/vm file path/vmname.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends ".

From the vmware.log:

Environment

VMware vSphere 8.x

VMware vSphere 7.x

Resolution

Remove the RDM disk and re-add the RDM disk  back to the VM. Also add the existing RDM pointers to the secondary VM.