[VMC on AWS] Virtual Machine Migration fails after the Switchover with an error: Creating Virtual Machine Image on the Target Side Failed
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Article ID: 329716
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VMware Cloud on AWS
Issue/Introduction
Provides details about how to troubleshoot and fix the issue.
Symptoms: Customer is unable to migrate the Virtual Machine.It impacts all Migrations types (vMotion, Bulk , RAV). You see this error: "Creating Virtual Machine Image on the Target Side Failed "
When checking the files for the VM on target side you see the VMX file is 0 kb in size.
Cause
By default, the maximum supported size of the nvram file in the hbrconfig file is 6 GB. This issue occurs if the nvram file size exceeds 6 GB for the migrating virtual machine.