Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Windows/Vmware: The disk is offline because of policy by an administrator

I presented the vapp to cloud but the disks never showed up. Upon checking on device manager, it states "The disk is offline because of policy by an administrator". I was looking up and down at the windows policy and nothing stated that the my vapp inherited this policy from the template. When I checked the Disk management, I realized they are all there just never came online on first boot up.
Missing all the disks
Some silly warning.
Bring them all online, initialize, and formatting


After a few reboots, the disks will remain intact. Perhaps, this is a problem for Windows presented in vmdk ? I have plenty of linux vapps that did show this problem.