Cannot power on the Fault Tolerance Secondary VM for virtual Machine XXXXXXX Operation timed out

[JohannesBerg]

Hello together,

when I try to setup a virtual Machine into the Fault Tolerance Mode I get follwoing Error

Cannot power on the Fault Tolerance Secondary VM for virtual Machine XXXXXXX Operation timed out

VMware SiteSurvey Report , told me everything looks fine.

System: VC 4.1.0.258902 on Windows 2008 SP2

ESX, 4 time DL 380 G6 Intel X5560 2.8GHz, Memory 110 GB

Performance used 25% in total

I changed the Host, I changed the Networkcard and Drivers without sucess

Do you have any Ideas?

Many Thanks

Johannes

[vmroyale]

Hello.

How much memory is given to this virtual machine?

Good Luck!

[JohannesBerg]

Hello VMRoyale,

the machine have 4096MB RAM

Cheers

[AndreTheGiant]

Have you tried to enable FT with the VM powered off?

Hosts have similar resources?

Have you tried with a "small" VM?

See also:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1013428

Andre