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VMWare vMotion: compatibility check fails with connection refused
posted on December 9th 2019, at 16:54
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lunarg
I had an issue where vMotion would no longer work. When selecting the target host in the vCenter UI, the compatibility check would fail with the error:
Error
A general system error occurred: Connection refused: The remote service is not running OR is overloaded, OR a firewall is rejecting connections.
A Google search for the issue reveals quite a bit of possible causes, mostly pointing to several more standard causes, which were all in order. When digging deeper in the logs, I stumbled upon the same message appearing in /storage/log/vmware/vmware-vpxd/vpxd.log.
Continuing the search, someone mentioned that it could be caused by services not started, which can easily be revealed when loggi
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