vMotion fails with the error: Failed waiting for data. Error 195887105. Failure.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• Unable to do vMotion for some of the Virtual machines while other VMs migrate normally.

• vMotion fails with error message similar to:
  
  A general system error occurred: The source detected that the destination failed to resume
vMotion migration failed: remote host failed with status Failure
vMotion migration failed to asynchronously receive and apply state from the remote host: Failure
Failed waiting for data. Error 195887105. Failure.
   
• In the /var/log/hostd.log file, you see the entries similar to:
  
  VMotionLastStatusCb: Failed with error 7: The source detected that the destination failed to resume.
   
• In the /vmfs/volumes/VM_Name/vmware.log file, you see the entries similar to:
  
  <YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> vmx| I125: Migrate: Caching migration error message list:</time>
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> vmx| I125: [msg.migrate.waitdata.platform] Failed waiting for data. Error bad0001. Failure.</time>
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> vmx| I125: [vob.vmotion.send.async.restore.failed] vMotion migration [#####:4374779504647] failed to asynchronously receive and apply state from the remote host: Failure.</time>
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> vmx| I125: [vob.vmotion.net.inval.msg.status] vMotion migration [#####:4374779504647] failed: remote host <x.x.x.x> failed with status Failure.</time>

 

Environment

vCenter Server 6.5

vCenter Server 6.7

Resolution

This error can be caused by a Trend Micro antivirus agent VMs running in the environment.
Powering down all Trend Micro VMs allow vMotion to proceed.