I just had an issue where I was unable to migrate a vm from one host to the next. I was able to migrate another vm off of the same server just before this one, but this one gets to about 90% then errors out "A general system error occured: Failed waiting for data. Error 16. Invalid argument." The hostd log from that server shows the following during the attempted migration:
Migration changed state from BEGIN to MIGRATING
Disconnect check in progress: /vmfs/volumes/47b0aaa0-6dfb5ada-4527-001b78339936/DIAC-WSUS01U/DIAC-WSUS01U.vmx
Disconnect check in progress: /vmfs/volumes/47b0aaa0-6dfb5ada-4527-001b78339936/DIAC-WSUS01U/DIAC-WSUS01U.vmx
Question info: Error encountered while saving state for migration
, Id: 0 : Type : 2, Default: 0, Number of options: 1
Failed to find activation record, event user unknown.
Event 270 : Message on DIAC-WSUS01U on nediacvir0007u.dodiis.mil in ha-datacenter: Error encountered while saving state for migration
FoundryVM_AnswerMessage returned 0
Auto-answered question Error encountered while saving state for migration
Disconnect check in progress: /vmfs/volumes/47b0aaa0-6dfb5ada-4527-001b78339936/DIAC-WSUS01U/DIAC-WSUS01U.vmx
VMotionLastStatusCb: Failed with error 4: Error encountered while saving state for migration.
VMotionResolveCheck: Operation in progress
Retrieved current power state from foundry 1
VMotionResolveCheck: Firing ResolveCb
ResolveCb: VMX reports gone = false
ResolveCb: Failed with fault: (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
reason = "Error encountered while saving state for migration."
msg = ""
}
I can post more if necessary. Any help would be great!