topic When I run mbrscan get [permission denied] for some vmdk's in VMware Solutions Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/When-I-run-mbrscan-get-permission-denied-for-some-vmdk-s/m-p/60228#M5655 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am running ./mbrscan --all some of my vmdk files come back [permission denied].&nbsp; This is just recent I have been slowly aligning all of my disks as I have had some performance problems but last night I saw this error.&nbsp; I have seen the [Device or resource busy] error and that makes sense because those vm's are on but the [permission denied] thing does not.&nbsp; it does not seem to make a difference whether the vm is on or off.&nbsp; I even tried moving one to a defferent data store just to see if that resolved it but it did not.&nbsp; It is not all of my vm's that have this only some and it seems random some work.&nbsp; If anyone can let me know what is happening that would be great.&nbsp; THanks in advance.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:24:11 GMT wally_kroeker 2025-06-05T07:24:11Z When I run mbrscan get [permission denied] for some vmdk's https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/When-I-run-mbrscan-get-permission-denied-for-some-vmdk-s/m-p/60228#M5655 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am running ./mbrscan --all some of my vmdk files come back [permission denied].&nbsp; This is just recent I have been slowly aligning all of my disks as I have had some performance problems but last night I saw this error.&nbsp; I have seen the [Device or resource busy] error and that makes sense because those vm's are on but the [permission denied] thing does not.&nbsp; it does not seem to make a difference whether the vm is on or off.&nbsp; I even tried moving one to a defferent data store just to see if that resolved it but it did not.&nbsp; It is not all of my vm's that have this only some and it seems random some work.&nbsp; If anyone can let me know what is happening that would be great.&nbsp; THanks in advance.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:24:11 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/When-I-run-mbrscan-get-permission-denied-for-some-vmdk-s/m-p/60228#M5655 wally_kroeker 2025-06-05T07:24:11Z Re: When I run mbrscan get [permission denied] for some vmdk's https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/When-I-run-mbrscan-get-permission-denied-for-some-vmdk-s/m-p/60234#M5659 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Wally,</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Are these NFS or VMFS datastores?&nbsp; Are you logging into the service console with the root account?&nbsp; The most likely case is that something has a lock on the vmdk file (a vm that is powered on references the vmdk file).&nbsp; If you are using NFS and happen to have taken a snapshot, you can always scan the vmdk files in the .snapshot directory.&nbsp; You should also be able to take a VM level snapshot, perform the scan, then release the VM snapshot.</P><P>Hope this helps,</P><P>-Eric </P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:11:05 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/When-I-run-mbrscan-get-permission-denied-for-some-vmdk-s/m-p/60234#M5659 forgette 2009-09-11T13:11:05Z