Cold Storage vMotion Fails, Hot Storage vMotion Successful
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.10 and later
- VMware vSphere 7.0.3
- ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere 9.13
- NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI 2.0.1-15 and 2.0.1-16
- NFS 4.1
Issue
After upgrading ONTAP 9.12.1P5 to 9.12.1P10, cold storage vMotion between volumes or flexgroups (same SVM) fails with error, "NfcErrorCode", value = 23.
0000-00-00T00:00:00.000Z info vpxd[11111] [Originator@2222 sub=Default opID=lrtxyw8r-3333333-auto-44vx-vx:55555555-66] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-77777777 -- vm-888888 -- vim.VirtualMachine.relocate: vim.fault.NetworkCopyFault:--> Result:--> (vim.fault.NetworkCopyFault)
{--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage)
[--> (vmodl.LocalizableMessage)
{--> key = "",--> arg = (vmodl.KeyAnyValue)
[--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue)
{--> key = "DestFile",--> value = "/vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyy/name.vmdk"-->
},--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {--> key = "NfcErrorCode",--> value = 23-->
},--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {--> key = "NfcErrorCodeString",--> value = "NFC_ASYNC"-->
},--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {--> key = "NfcErrorString",--> value = "The request will complete asynchronously"-->
}-->
],--> message = ""-->
}-->
],--> file = "/vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyy/name.vmdk"-->
msg = "Could not complete network copy for file /vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyy/name.vmdk"--> }
vCenter Error:
Operation Failed!