I had the same message happen to me as well when I was testing proper vm shutdown with Vmware ESXI V6.5U3 and the APC PowerChute Network Shutdown virtual appliance. What happened was the host was not configured properly to gracefully shut down all of the vms, including HA, and the HA vm did not shut down gracefully.
I was able to get the vm working again without starting from scratch (and restoring a backup) by performing the following:
- At the “Autoboot” screen, draw focus to your vm and press the number “2” on the keyboard
