After power loss, when starting up HomeAssistant I get this error.

Here’s the steps to fix it:

1. Enable SSH
2. SSH into vmware host
3. go to the specified file
4. run vmkfstools -x check on the .vmdk file
5. run vmkfstools -x repair on the .vmdk file
6. power on the virtual machine
   

Credit to this fix goes to https://tklaassens.wordpress.com/2019/05/13/object-type-requires-hosted-i-o/