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adithya_bhat
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The request refers to an object that no longer exists or never existed

I have VC 2.5 newly installed. This has two clusters created, One cluster has ESX 3.0.2 servers and 2nd cluster has ESX 3.5 servers. Now the problem is after when i upgrade a host from ESX 3.0.2 to ESX 3.5 i add it into the 2nd cluster and i cannot enable DRS on second cluster, I get "The request refers to an object that no longer exists or never existed" error if any VMs are geting migrated within the second cluster.

I have recreated the entire cluster and readded the hosts nut i still have this error. But When DRS is disabled on the Cluster Vmotion works fine.

Someone Please help....

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Parndorfer
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I ran into the same issue during Fast Track training. I ended up putting the hosts in maintenance mode. Removing them from the cluster, deleting the cluster, re-creating the cluster (with a different name, not sure if that matters or not), enabling only DRS when I re-created the cluster. After I saw that I could power on hosts, I then added the HA option in the cluster and everything worked out fine.

I hope this helps.....

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adithya_bhat
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It got resolved only after i upgraded my VC into update1 for VC 2.5. Rest all circuss did not resolved my problems. I think this is a kind of bug which has got fixed in Update 1 of VC 2.5

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Cameron2007
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try to find the datastore where the VM sits then remove from inventory. If you then go to the datastore and find the vmx file and re-register this te machine should appear back in the inventory as avalid object

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