A virtual machine loses network connectivity after a vMotion and reports the error: Error deleting free dvport ad a0 19 50 ab 83 c4 bd-15 35 ec b7 92 8e f8 b8-359

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• When a vMotion is performed on a virtual machine from one ESX/ESXi host to another, it may lose network connectivity
• When the virtual machine is migrated by a vMotion back to the original host, it works properly
• In the hostd.log file, you see entries similar to:
  
  [2011-03-16 10:59:25.324 F62F2B90 verbose 'App'] Looking up object with name = "haTask--vim.dvs.HostDistributedVirtualSwitchManager.updatePorts-890566" failed.
  [2011-03-16 10:59:25.325 F62F2B90 verbose 'PropertyCollector'] GetPropertyProvider failed for haTask--vim.dvs.HostDistributedVirtualSwitchManager.updatePorts-890566
  [2011-03-16 10:59:25.566 F5B32B90 error 'NetworkProvider'] Error deleting free dvport ad a0 19 50 ab 83 c4 bd-15 35 ec b7 92 8e f8 b8-359 : 359 please file a bug
  [2011-03-16 10:59:25.774 F5B32B90 info 'App'] AdapterServer caught exception: vim.fault.PlatformConfigFault
  [2011-03-16 10:59:25.774 F5B32B90 info 'TaskManager'] Task Completed : haTask--vim.dvs.HostDistributedVirtualSwitchManager.deletePorts-890916 Status error
  
  
• In the vpxa.log file, you see entries similar to:
  
  [2009-09-29 03:39:04.158 0x121d7b90 error 'App'] [VpxaMoDvs::ProcessDvsSpec] failed to remove ports in dvs [42 4e 06 50 b6 e1 0d 7b-e5 58 47 d9 24 59 7c 13] during a spec sync: caught vim.fault.PlatformConfigFault exception: spec:[(vpxapi.DvportRemoveSpec)

Environment

VMware ESXi 4.0.x Installable
VMware vCenter Server 4.0.x
VMware ESXi 4.0.x Embedded
VMware ESX 4.0.x

Resolution

This issue is resolved in VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Update 2 and vCenter Server 4.1.

For more information, see the VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Update 2 Release Notes.

To download vCenter Server 4.0 Update 2 or vCenter Server 4.1, see the VMware Download Center.