General System Error

[seangar]

I have a cluster that I am upgrading from 3.0.2 to 3.5. VC is running 2.5. Dell 1950's.

One cluster before this went fine, no problems. This cluster is giving me a headache. I upgraded in place like all the others I have done. However when I go to migrate a hot guest it gives me the error in the title

Cold guests migrate fine. No issues.

TIA

S

[sbeaver]

Check the networking and make sure it is corrrect

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[JasonBarnes]

What builds are you using?

Also what does the Hostd log say during the vmotion?

[runclear]

So does this happen on ALL "guests" on the problematic node? I've had this happen to me and it ended up being a simple registration issue where the vm thought it was registered already on the other host etc.. you can run vmware-cmd -l to see what vm's are "registered"...

Also dig through your logs on the VC server and it will give you more info about the "genaric error".. its a tad painful to dig through them, but its not impossible.

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[Karunakar]

Hi,

Can you try to do a VMKPING from server one to other, if yes then try to restart the mgmt-vmware services on both the servers.

This might help. This error is usually seen when the vmkernel network configurations are not proper.

-Karunakar