ESXi standalone host cannot power on any virtual machines

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Published on 2013-11-04T21:23:56Z Indexed on 2013/11/04 21:56 UTC
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I have a standalone VMWare ESXi host on ESXi 5.1. It currently has a handful of VMs powered on, and they are running fine.

If I try to power on any other VM - any VM at all - I am receiving the following message:

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Power On virtual machine:A general system error occurred: The virtual machine could not start

I have been through everything on KB2001005 and KB1006232 and their steps are either not applicable, or don't change anything. Nothing is generated in the virtual machine's log file.

Where can I troubleshoot from here?

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