Unable to power on VMs after the upgrade.

[Vitaly91]

Guys,

I have just upgraded my VC to 2.5 and ESX box (guinea pig) to 3.5.

Everything seemed to have gone fine and I had no errors or problems that I noticed.

However, now I try to power on VMs that are stored locally on that ESX box and I get:

VMControl error -999: Unknown error: SoapError: ServerFaultCode(1520) : (A general system error occurred: )

I have tried restarting mgmt service, I have made sure all VMs are off (I had to kill one process), searched on the forums and on "Known Issues".. I cant find anything.

Any ideas? Have anyone seen this?

Thank you in advance for all your help!

[wila]

Does this only happen with VMs that are stored locally?

If it happens with all VMs, have you checked licensing? There's a known licensing issue with ESX 3.5 on hosts that have more as 2 processor sockets. The good news on that is that there's an update released that addresses this.

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Wil

[rescios]

Hi

I am experiencing the very same issue after upgrading to esx 3.5 upgrade 2 (from 3.01). Was your problem ever solved ?

Thanks