Cant Enable HA or VMotion

[virtech]

I have a strange strange issue when a couple of my ESXi servers were powered off for a few days, when I booted them back up I couldnt get FT working across a a couple of VM's or I coulnt even use Vmotion to migrate to another host.

I have rebuilt VC and both ESXi hosts, latest versions available. The error i keep getting is a general system error occurred: Failed to initalize migration at source. Error 0xbad00a4. Vmotion failed to start due to lack of CPU or memory resources. Also getting : No Compatible host has sufficnet resources to satisfy the reservation

This error makes no sense at all, there is plenty of spare capacity on both of my ESXi hosts.

[virtech]

there is definitely a bug with ESXi4 , I've just installed ESX4 (full version) and I dont have any issues. Available slots is 72 (thats more like it)

[JimKnopf99]

yep, i think youre right.

there are a lot more bugs i think. Login via SSL and Type df -h

But do not wonder why the root partition is nearly full. Thats ESXi

Frank

[JimKnopf99]

Have you Open a call yet?

Or are you able to fix it by yourself?

Frank

[VMmatty]

Any update on this? I'm actually having the exact same issue. It happened after a failed attempt to enable VMware Fault Tolerance. I now have 0 slots available despite having plenty of resources available. I'm using ESX4 not ESXi and am on the latest patches.

[virtech]

I wasnt able to log a support call with VMware and didnt have the time to try and investigate so I rebuilt my environment with ESX4 (full version). Everything is now happy again. There is def a bug with ESXi, and some very strange business when enabling FT....

Sorry I cant be of more help, log a support call if you can with VMware.

[VMmatty]

As someone mentioned above, for me this turned out to be an Admission Control problem. Once I enabled it and set the amount of host failures then I was able to use VMotion again. VMotion was working for me before as well so I think enabling Fault Tolerance when there weren't enough slots available was what caused my issue.

Hope this helps anyone else who finds this thread.