VDPA Appliance won't boot has hung backup job

We received this error after the backup job hung and the appliance went down.  An error was received from the ESX host while powering on Cannot open the disk
'/vmfs/volumes/539f5faa-e0ecf8ce-6a13-180373f7ae81/XXXX-SVR/XXXX-Data1-SVR_2_1.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

The XXXX-Data1-SVR_2_1.vmdk has been deleted.  Does anyone know how to delete the job so the VDPA appliance will boot?  The only thing I haven't tried is to manually create a VMDK with the same name.  I'm worried that it may cause more damage.  Has anyone ran into this?

Thanks,

MC