topic vMotion issue - Migration Failed while copying data. Busy. in vCenter™ Server Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vMotion-issue-Migration-Failed-while-copying-data-Busy/m-p/2538493#M84674 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I received an error while trying to vMotion today:&nbsp; "A general system error occurred: Migration failed while copying data. Busy."&nbsp; The issue turned out to be a swap file change in 4.1.&nbsp; To get the machines to vMotion again I had to change an advanced setting:&nbsp; Migrate.VMotionResolveSwapType from 1 to 0.&nbsp; Then everything migrated after that.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Hopefully this will save someone the hour I spent with vmware tech support figuring this out.</P><P></P><P>-Jason</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:12:24 GMT JasonBurrell 2011-02-03T02:12:24Z vMotion issue - Migration Failed while copying data. Busy. https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vMotion-issue-Migration-Failed-while-copying-data-Busy/m-p/2538493#M84674 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I received an error while trying to vMotion today:&nbsp; "A general system error occurred: Migration failed while copying data. Busy."&nbsp; The issue turned out to be a swap file change in 4.1.&nbsp; To get the machines to vMotion again I had to change an advanced setting:&nbsp; Migrate.VMotionResolveSwapType from 1 to 0.&nbsp; Then everything migrated after that.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Hopefully this will save someone the hour I spent with vmware tech support figuring this out.</P><P></P><P>-Jason</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:12:24 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vMotion-issue-Migration-Failed-while-copying-data-Busy/m-p/2538493#M84674 JasonBurrell 2011-02-03T02:12:24Z Re: vMotion issue - Migration Failed while copying data. Busy. https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vMotion-issue-Migration-Failed-while-copying-data-Busy/m-p/2538494#M84675 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for this work around. Are there any specific technical reason why this has to be changed? I am just trying to document why.</P><P></P><P>Thanks </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:56:41 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vMotion-issue-Migration-Failed-while-copying-data-Busy/m-p/2538494#M84675 drwoodberry 2011-06-02T13:56:41Z