vMotion Fails: Already Exists

thiteshew · ‎03-31-2011

Hello all,

We're running vSphere Update 1 (yes...I know). One of our VMs on a host fails with the following error when it tries to vMotion:

"A general system error occurred. Failed to initialize migration at source. Error 0xbad0005. Already exists."

I've restarted service mgmt-vmware and service vmware-vpxa but the VM still will not migrate.

I did find the following KB article that describes a similar error,

Should following the steps in the above KB article fix the problem? Is there another way to get vMotion working for this VM?

Troy_Clavell · ‎03-31-2011

you can try, but also note the below KB