Vmotion faild "InvalidPowerState"

[mig50saez]

We have migrated a machine physically RH Linux 3 AS a virtual machine to a host with ESX 3.5 (we have a cluster with two hosts).

When we make a VMotion manually this virtual machine to another host, migration is wrong with the following error "InvalidPowerState." Any Idea

[kjb007]

Do you have vmware tools installed? Do you have power management/ACPI enabled in your kernel? Make sure to turn that off.

-KjB

[mig50saez]

I am no expert on linux..

Have a procedure for turn off power management / ACPI in Linux RH 3 AS?

Thanks

Miguel Sáez Sáez

IBM Certified Deployment Professional

Tivoli Configuration Manager

IT Specialist

IBM de Chile S.A.C.

mail: msaez@cl.ibm.com

Phone: 562-2006638

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[kjb007]

Try this, edit your /etc/grub.conf and add the following statement:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EL ro ... rhgb quiet acpi=off

Then restart the vm, and see if you run into the same problem.

-KjB

[admin]

try restarting the VC service

[mike_laspina]

Hi,

If I can remember this one correctly.

The message is indicating that the previous VMotion attempt failed to enable the target VM on the other ESX Server after the memory copy transition and is in an invalid power state in the VC DB.

I believe I corrected this issue by restarting the mgmt-vmware service which will then re-inventory the VM states.

Since you are using HA and DRS I normally disable those before restarting the service just to be safe.