Troubleshooting Migration compatibility warning: No guest OS heartbeats are being received

When performing a VMotion migration the following compatibility warning is displayed:

Migration from <source server>: No guest OS heartbeats are being received. Either the guest OS is not responding or VMware tools is not configured properly .

This unable to migrate warning indicates that the VMware tools are either not installed or not running in the virtual machine.

This message is safe to ignore when performing a migration.

To workaround the issue, perform one of the following actions:

Ensure that the VMware tools are installed in the virtual machine before performing a migration.
Ensure that the virtual machine has been running long enough for the operating system to be completely started before performing a migration.
If the tools are already installed, reinstall the VMware tools to ensure that you are on the latest version and that there is no corruption in the configuration.

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