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Intermittent VMware Storage vMotion Failures

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Applies to

  • ONTAP
  • NFS datastores
  • VMware vCenter
  • VMware vSphere environments (Storage vMotion)
  • Encrypted virtual machines with vTPM and snapshots

Issue

  • VMware Storage vMotion operations intermittently fail when migrating encrypted virtual machines (with vTPM and snapshots)
  • This happens between NFS datastores with Filesystem Timeout and Cryptographic Operations Errors
  • The failure presents as:

  • Failed waiting for data. Error <#>. Not found.
  • Failed to copy source (/vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx-00000#.vmdk) to destination (/vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx-00000#.vmdk):Filesystem timeout (Ok to retry).
  • Failed to copy one or more disks.
  • Cryptographic operations during Migratedisk operation: [newDisk:false, fileName:"ds:///vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx-00000#.vmdk"]
  • A fatal internal error occurred. See the virtual machine's log for more details.

  • The operation often succeeds after 2-3 retries or when attempted without a snapshot.
  • When reviewing the ESXi host logs, the destination NFS datastore is repeatedly involved in failures across different VMs.

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