a general system error occured:invalid fault.

[AllBlack]

Hi,

I suddenly seem to have issues with my DRS cluster. One of my host is in red state and gives me the following error:

Unable to apply drs settings on host: a general system error occured:invalid fault.

It seem to have started when I added some VMs to a resource pool. There are no limitations on RP and

the load on server appears to be low

Removing the VMs does not make a difference. Makes me think it might be unrelated. Any ideas?

[AllBlack]

I think I found the problem. My first host is connected to two LUNs on my SAN.

The second one is only connected to one LUN and the VM files were sitting on a LUN that was not accessible by second host.

I must have forgot to move it in correct location. Doh

[mnasir]

I got the same error after upgrading my esx server 3.5U4, please use the command below to resolve the issue:

1. Disconnect your host from the cluster and create an SSH session to that host

2. use su - to become root

rpm -qa | egrep -i '(vpx|lgto|aam)'; ls /tmp/vmware-root

rpm -e `rpm -qa | egrep -i '(vpx|lgto|aam)'`; rm -rf /etc/vmware/hostd/pools.xml; rm -rf /etc/vmware/license.cfg; userdel vpxuser;service mgmt-vmware restart

tail -f /var/log/vmware/hostd.log | grep BEGIN

Wait for the BEGIN to show up on your console

Reconnect the host to the cluster.

Thanks - Please consider giving points, if you think this post was helpful.

[mnasir]

I have been monitoring my hosts for last 3 months since my last post - no DRS issue, It looks like the solution I provided on my earlier post works like a charm.