A General System Error Occurred
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to this issue and the workaround did the trick for me. Basically, the http://www.storagegumbo.com/2015/11/cannot-start-vm-general-system-error.html vCenter Workflow Manager service had stopped on my vCenter server. In http://www.vclouds.nl/a-general-system-error-occurred-the-virtual-machine-could-not-start/ my case, I'm running the 6.0.0 vApp so I had to open an SSH session and enter the following: shell.set --enabled true shell service-control --status vmware-vpx-workflow (this command confirmed the service was stopped) service-control --start vmware-vpx-workflow Once running, I was able to start a general VMs again from vCenter. Not sure why this was so hard to find in a web search but hopefully the search engines will pick up this blog post and save people some time! See also: VMware KB: VMware NSX for vSphere 6.x Controller deployment fails the error: Failed to power on VM NSX Controller a general system VMware KB: Stopping, starting, or restarting VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 services VMware KB: Stopping, starting, or restarting VMware vCenter Server 6.0 services Posted by John Dias at 9:13:00 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest 12 comments: AnonymousNovember 28, 2015 at 3:13 AMThanks! This worked for me although I had a different issue but same symptom. vmware-vpx-work service was already running so I checked the logs and for some reason, vcenter was attempting to connect to localhost instead of wsxhost when powering on. Restarted the service and its now connecting to the correct host.ReplyDeleteAnonymousDecember 3, 2015 at 11:34 AMThank you for posting this! This was exactly what I neededReplyDeleteUnknownJanuary 15, 2016 at 1:03 AMThanks for the post, very helpful!ReplyDeleteAnonymousJanuary 19, 2016 at 11:56 PMThanks u its helps us to resolve the issue.ReplyDeleteAnonymousFebruary 18, 2016 at 7:32 AMThanks John, it works!ReplyDeleteTayfun DEGERMarch 7, 2016 at 2:16 PMThanks for sharing.ReplyDeleteAnonymousMay 5, 2016 at 9:54 AMJust had an issue where I couldn'
I was moving some VM’s from my Nexenta FC storage to my QNAP iSCSI storage to play around with the Nexenta VDEV pools. When I moved every VM I suddenly got this error: Checking all options, this drove me crazy for a little while… no shell or ssh was enabled on this host, and I did not feel like getting a screen and keyboard to check the vmkernel log… I totally forgot that a little while back I was playing around with swap file placement and placed the VM swap file on my ESX local storage. Since this disk and datastore is no longer available. The ESX host did not place it back to the default Virtual Machine directory. I changed this option to it’s default and all VM’s powered up again. Sometimes answers are so simple, and can mess up a beautiful day… Filed Under: VMware vSphere Tagged With: A general system error occurred, The virtual machine could not start About Marco BroekenMarco Broeken is Author of this blog and owner of vSpecialist Consulting and co-owner of XtraDesktop where he currently works as a Senior Virtualization Consultant. Marco has over 15 years experience in IT. Speak Your Mind Reactie annuleren Name * Email * Website Follow me on Twitter! The #vRockstar is happening this year! More info soon! Many thanks to our sponsors! :) https://t.co/bN758xgFPt https://t.co/2vhbDMXthP 21 september 2016 14:31Who got #vRockstar party pics from last year on their puter? let me know! 21 september 2016 10:35Verifying myself: I am mbroeken on Keybase.io. HUa8jNi0kmEcrPz2PAgF0Up8Hp4v_hXubH7j / https://t.co/tqbhNIOkNw 17 september 2016 22:33“@FrankDenneman: Looking forward to #vBeers tonight” +1 15 september 2016 10:41Soon more #vRockstar details will be unveiled.. https://t.co/XEJsV7SpqY 15 september 2016 10:41Used to buy @ProximalData AutoCache for $800 per ESXi host. @samsung has acquired the product, now it's is sold for $2700 per host #gofigure 14 september 2016 18:46Watching @SatyamVaghani ex-@pernixdata - #VMworld - #theCUBE https://t.co/5asyyKOi8h 12 september 2016 16:35 Tweets The #vRockstar is happening this year! More info soon! Many thanks to our sponsors! :) https://t.co/bN758xgFPt https://t.co/2vhbDMXthP 21 september 2016 14:31Who got #vRockstar party pics from last year on their puter? let me know! 21 september 2016 10:35Verifying myself: I am mbroeken on Keybase.io. HUa8jNi0kmEcrPz2PAgF0Up8H