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VMotion Disabled After ESX Server Patch Upgrade or Boot into Linux

Details

I used a patch to upgrade my ESX Server. I booted into Linux, then booted back to vmnix. My VMotion is now disabled. What happened?

Solution

VMotion may become disabled after you use an ESX Server patch upgrade, or after you boot an ESX Server host into Linux mode and boot it back to vmnix mode while VirtualCenter is connected to the host.

There are two workarounds:

  • Disconnect the ESX Server host from VirtualCenter before applying the ESX Server patch upgrade or booting the ESX Server host in Linux mode.
  • Disable xinetd before upgrading or booting to the plain Linux mode, and enable xinetd after.

To disable xinetd:

  1. Turn off run level 3 of the xinetd daemon using chkconfig when you boot into Linux mode.
  2. Set xinetd to not start after booting.
    Set chkconfig level 3 xinetd to off.
    Boot into Linux mode.
  3. Set xinetd to start after booting.
    Set chkconfig level 3 xinetd to on.
    Boot into vmnix mode.
These workarounds apply to ESX Server versions 2.5.3, 2.5.1, 2.5, and 2.0.1.

Keywords

RELNOTES; VC130; 61662; 1808; VC131

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  • KB Article: 1808
  • Updated: Aug 14, 2009
  • Products:
    VMware ESX
    VMware VirtualCenter
  • Product Versions:
    VMware ESX 2.0.x
    VMware ESX 2.1.x
    VMware ESX 2.5.x
    VMware VirtualCenter 1.2.x
    VMware VirtualCenter 1.3.x