VMware Vmotion timed out
I’ve been fighting an issue with VMware Vmotion timing out at 10%. The log file for the VM simply stated “Timed out waiting for migration start request”
Happily, I found a solution - run the following commands on your ESX hosts:
service mgmt-vmware restart service vmware-vpxa restart
Thanks to Jonathan Medd for posting this useful tidbit.
So what causes the issue in the first place?
It appears that failed vMotion migrations can leave the vCenter agent in a broken state. In this specific case, I think a prior network issue caused the first failure – after the network issue was fixed, the agent was still broken.