Hi!
Today I upgraded from VC2.0.1/ESX 3.0.1 to VC2.5/ESX 3.5.
I'm running three ESX hosts and was able to upgrade two of them to 3.5 by now (Virtual Center has already been upgraded to 2.5). Currently I'm trying to get the last ESX 3.0.1 server free by migrating all virtual
machines hosted on this server to the other two servers.
What's really strange, is that I could migrate some of the VMs hosted on ESX1 (currently ESX 3.0.1) without problems to ESX2 (v3.5) and ESX3 (v2.5), but some virtual machines can't be migrated.
The migration meter is stalled at 10% and after quite some time I get an error message "Operation timed out".
I tried to migrate an already migrated machine back to ESX1, that worked. Afterwards I tried to migrate this VM again to the host it was prior to migrating to ESX1 and that worked too, so I'm sure that there's
no problem with the ESX Server, the VMotion network or any other thing that would prevent all virtual machines from doing migrations using VMotion.
The problem seems to be related to only some specific VMs.
In the logfiles I get the following lines after starting the migration:
VMotionLastStatusCb: Failed with error 3: Timed out waiting for migration start request.
2008-01-17 14:41:05.812 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/44c8cde5-be52be30-6a3c-0010180dd88f/vilxap01.vmx' 133241776 verbose VMotionResolveCheck: Operation in progress
2008-01-17 14:41:05.812 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/44c8cde5-be52be30-6a3c-0010180dd88f/vilxap01.vmx' 133241776 verbose VMotionStatusCb: Completed
2008-01-17 14:41:05.812 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/44c8cde5-be52be30-6a3c-0010180dd88f/vilxap01.vmx' 133241776 verbose Retrieved current power state from foundry 1
2008-01-17 14:41:05.812 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/44c8cde5-be52be30-6a3c-0010180dd88f/vilxap01.vmx' 133241776 verbose VMotionResolveCheck: Firing ResolveCb
ResolveCb: VMX reports gone = false
ResolveCb: Failed with fault: (vim.fault.Timedout) {
msg = ""*
}
Any idea what I could try to get these machines migrated?
TIA,
Alex