Had an issue where a VM would not migrate to another node within the Nutanix cluster, getting this error message after about 21%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Migration to host <172.16.0.10> failed with error msg.vmk.status.VMK_BUSY (195887108).\nvMotion migration [-1407287005:1461064336904335] remotecall returned Busy\nvMotion migration [-1407287005:1461064336904335] failed: remote host <172.16.0.10>> failed with status Busy.\nFile is being locked by a consumer on host NTNX-14SM6111111-A with exclusive lock.\nvMotion migration [-1407287005:1461064336904335] failed to initialize a valid destination swapfile: Busy.\nFailed waiting for data. Error 195887108. Busy.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nTo resolve this I used: https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1031636<\/a> even though this is for version 4.x this worked for VMware 5.5.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the host under advanced settings change this setting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Migrate.VMotionResolveswaptype = 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Change the value to 0 on the problem host and the host you are migrating to, you can set it back to 1 again once the migration has completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Had an issue where a VM would not migrate to another node within the Nutanix cluster, getting this error message after about 21%. To resolve this I used: https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1031636 even though this is for version 4.x this worked for VMware 5.5. On the host under advanced settings change this setting: Migrate.VMotionResolveswaptype = 1 Change the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}