Posts tagged ‘cross vcenter vmotion’
Cross VCenter VMotion fails with the error “A specified parameter was not correct: path”
Recently , we had to migrate some VM’s from a VSphere 6.7(17499825) to 7.0 U2 cluster. We leveraged the Import VM’s feature that utilizes the Cross VCenter VMotion capability.
The source: VCenter 7.0
The destination: VCenter 6.7
Even though , the required access between the clusters were allowed(based on https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2106952) , when we tried to trigger the import VM’s there were no process or tasks being generated in both vcenters. However , we noticed a failed task on the VM that we are trying to import in the destination VCenter( under the tasks and events for the particular VM )wiith the message “A specified parameter was not correct: path”.
We started reviewing the hostd.log on both sides but no avail. Finally , out of exhaustion , we tried to changed the source datastore to a different one(In our scenario the datastore names were identical on both sides) and voila the import VM’s got kicked in and completed successfully. Still , I am not sure the cause for this behavior where the import of VM’s failing due to identical datastore names on both sides , so we have opened a case with VMware support to find out the root cause. I will updating this post as soon as I receive the response.
Tip: Also during the import VM’s wizard (3rd step) where we select the desired to host to place the imported VM on the source cluster we were receiving a SSL related error. This was resolved after disabling the SSL inspection on our firewall
Hope you like it.. 