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live migration - vmotion

under what circumstances live migration will interrupt  and please explain solution to overcome. 

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rcporto
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Heavy over committed host and storage/network with high latency can be some issues that can cause vMotion failure, take a look at this KB article for detailed information: VMware KB: vMotion fails with the error: Migration to host <> failed with error

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RahulVmware1985
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photofalk
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One of my customers had enabled vMotion traffic on different vmk's. vMotion will stop after 14% in this case.

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kanishks
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Hi,

If there are multiple vmkernel ports in the same network, the ESX/ESXi host may not use the vmkernel port checked off for vMotion when using the vmkping command. The host uses the vmkernel port associated with that IP subnet in its routing/forwarding table. If there is a physical switch configuration problem, vmkping may show connectivity as working correctly, but the actual vmkernel port associated with vMotion may not have access to that IP network on the physical network.

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This issue occurs if there are two vmx-swap files present in the virtual machine directory. The directory should contain one standard ESXi vswp file (vmname.vswp) and one VMX-swap file (vmx-vmname.vswp) for vmx memory overhead.

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This issue occurs because there are missing cpuid values in the .vmx file located on the virtual machine being vMotioned.

Below are the kb article with the resolution.

VMware KB: vMotion fails at 14% with the error: Timed out waiting for migration start request

VMware KB: vMotion fails at 14% with the error: Operation Timed out

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=204265...

Kindly mark this as correct or helpful if this answers your query.

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Kanishk

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