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Rebelno1
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Vmotion failing

I have just upgraded a host to 6.0 i was hoping to upgrade all hosts in the cluster but when i try to move our VM's over to the newly upgraded 6.0 host it failed

all my other hosts are on 5.1 EP4 - 1612806

the vmware.log of the machine shows vob.vmotion.stream.completion.complete.fail] vMotion migration failed draining stream completion: Bad parameter

I think this vmware kb describes the issue VMware KB: After upgrading from ESXi 5.0/5.1 to 5.5 Update 3b or 6.0 Update 1b, vMotion fails with t...

but the thing is I have nowhere to move the VM's now so I am locked in this 5.1 environment and cant re install newly 5.1 on our old configured host which is now on 6.0

and i cannot power down the VM's and move over they have to stay powered on or install a new 5.5a host as an intermediate to get the VM's across to the 6.0 host

So what can i do now as i have no other options it seems

any suggestions would be much appreciated .

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MKguy
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Have you tried reverting back to the previous ESXi version with the boot screen method?

See this article: VMware KB: Reverting to a previous version of ESXi

After that you could you reinstall/upgrade the host to a pre-U1b 6.0 version.

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MKguy
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Have you tried reverting back to the previous ESXi version with the boot screen method?

See this article: VMware KB: Reverting to a previous version of ESXi

After that you could you reinstall/upgrade the host to a pre-U1b 6.0 version.

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Rebelno1
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Thanks for the help MKguy

got the chance to implement this and it worked a treat

Cheers for the help

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