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Getting errors while Vmotioning guests

Attempt 1

An error occurred while communicating with the remote host

Attempt 2

A general system error occurred: Invalid Fault

Attempt 3

System just hangs at 10%

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abaum
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Another thing to try...I can't use a "high priority" vmotion, but "low priority" works just fine.

adam

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Troy_Clavell
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maybe this, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003734 , will be helpful

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i'll give it a shot, thanks. from your knowledge do you think I should start to perform these steps on the sending host or the receiving host?

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Troy_Clavell
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DNS resolution is a good start, also, you may try restarting hostd on both source and destination. Also, make sure you can vmkping the VMkerel ports of from both source and destination hosts.

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abaum
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Another thing to try...I can't use a "high priority" vmotion, but "low priority" works just fine.

adam

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i got this suggestion from my vendor just a few minutes ago so i'm going to give that a try next. i'm assuming if this works then we can rull out the vmkernal/dns/etc options and sit here and pull my hair out wondering what the heck the last round of updates REALLY did to my hosts.

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DFN
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does it mean anything to you guys that i can move guests around fine as long as they are shut off so really it's just a total vmotion issue from what i can see.

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do you have the commands handy for these?

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Troy_Clavell
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do you have the commands handy for these?

all commands issued at the service console

restart hostd - service mgmt-vmware restart

vmkping - vmkping IP of VMKernel Port of destination host

hope this helps.

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abaum
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I have similar symptoms...Vmotioning live machines failes, but powered off guests work fine. Try a low-priority vmotion and see if that works. Worked for me.

adam

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