VMotion Live Migraton Fails – A general system error occurred: vim.faultNotFound

[V12Tech]

Hopefully someone will have some ideas on this one.

2 x Esxi servers + Dell Equalogic SAN.

vSphere Client v6.0.0

We can live migrate some but not all of the servers between the two hosts. The ones that fail to migrate all report A general system error occurred: vim.fault.NotFound.

We are not configured with Distributed Virtual Switches so we should not have the 'known' issue of the port numbers being incorrect..

Any help would be appreciated.

[GayathriS]

If you dont have DVSwitch , could you try to unregister VM and register it back post that try to vmotion and check if it still reports the same error

regards

Gayathri

[GayathriS]

-->Also check in the host.log with the VM name and see it is reporting any particular error.

-->Try to migrate VM to a different datastore and then try to perform VMotion and check of that makes any difference.

Finally you can try to reboot the host .

regards

gayathri

[V12Tech]

Thanks for the suggestion, we tried unregistering and re-registering on one of the VM's and were able to move it to another host but still can't migrate it.

[a_p_]

Does the VM have any special configuration, or snapshots?

Please attach the VM's vmware.log file to a reply post to see whether this file contains any hints regarding the issue.

André

[V12Tech]

-->Try to migrate VM to a different datastore and then try to perform VMotion and check of that makes any difference.

The issue is affecting VM's that are already on different datastores. I'll try moving a small affected VM between stores out of hours tonight, both hosts have been restarted since this issue was discovered.