When power on VM or consolidating snapshot , you see following error:
Unable to power on the VM due to consolidation error.
When trying to consolidate the Vm getting an error related to tracking file I/O
Error:- Failed to copy source (/vmfs/volumes/########-#######-####-############/vmdirectory_name/VM_name/VM_name-000001.vmdk) to destination (/vmfs/volumes/########-#######-####-############/vmdirectory_name/VM_name/VM_name.vmdk): No connection. An error occurred while consolidating disks: Unable to save snapshot file. Consolidation failed for disk node 'scsi0:0': I/O error accessing change tracking file. Failed to get copy progress while consolidating disks from '/vmfs/volumes/########-#######-####-############/vmdirectory_name/VM_name/VM_name-000001.vmdk' to '/vmfs/volumes/########-#######-####-############/vmdirectory_name/VM_name/VM_name.vmdk'.
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 8.x
This issue occurs if ESXi host has a problem accessing the underlying storage devices or data stores.