Hi all,
We have got an issue with one of our ESX servers. We migrated our environment in vSphere 4 a few weeks ago: vCenter 4 U1 and 3 ESX hosts in 4.0 U1 (in one cluster with HA and DRS enabled). All is working fine except one host on which we can't power on VM...
This host has been totally reinstalled many times but we are still unable to power on a VM. The most surprising is that VMotion is working fine on this host: we can move a powered on VM from an host to this one. But we can't power on a VM.
I tried several tips: deleting the host; adding it again in the cluster; reconfigure HA; change resources reservation; ... For information we don't use resources pools and this ESX host is a Dell PowerEdge R900 with 2 CPU (6 core each) and 64 Go RAM.
When we power on a VM we got an error message: "Insufficient resources". I checked the log files and you will find it below:
Task Created : haTask-64-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1543199294
Power on request recieved
Reconfigure ethernet backing if required
Event 27 : XXX on host host01.com in ha-datacenter is starting
State Transition (VM_STATE_OFF -> VM_STATE_POWERING_ON)
ModeMgr::Begin: op = normal, current = normal, count = 0
Load: Loading existing file: /etc/vmware/license.cfg
FormatField: Optional unset (vim.event.VmInstanceUuidAssignedEvent.vm)
FormatField: Optional unset (vim.event.VmUuidAssignedEvent.vm)
FormatField: Optional unset (vim.event.VmUuidAssignedEvent.host)
FormatField: Optional unset (vim.event.VmUuidAssignedEvent.datacenter)
Insufficient COS swap to power on: need 20 MB, have 5 MB
Failed operation
Event 28 : Cannot power On XXX on host01.com in ha-datacenter. A general system error occurred:
State Transition (VM_STATE_POWERING_ON -> VM_STATE_OFF)
ModeMgr::End: op = normal, current = normal, count = 1
Task Completed : haTask-64-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-1543199294 Status error
AdapterServer caught exception: vim.fault.InsufficientResourcesFault
Activation : Invoke done on
Arg host:
Throw vim.fault.InsufficientResourcesFault
Result:
(vim.fault.InsufficientResourcesFault) {
+ dynamicType = <unset>,+
+ faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,+
+ msg = "",+
}
FormatField: Optional unset (vim.event.VmInstanceUuidAssignedEvent.vm)
Ticket issued for CIMOM version 1.0, user root
Many thanks to all people that will have a look to this issue!
Let me know if you need further information.
Regards,
Charly
