Symptoms:
When the virtual machine is removed from a vSphere 5.x inventory and then added to vSphere 6.0 inventory, you experience these symptoms:
- The virtual machine shows an Invalid status.
- The configuration file (.vmx) contains entries used for vSphere Replication ( hbr_filter) .
- Powering on a virtual machine fails with error:
Host is not compatible with the vsphere replication configuration supported by the virtual machine
- The /var/log/hostd.log file contains entries similar to:
- CannotRetrieveCorefiles: VM is in an invalid state
- Marking configuration as invalid: N3Vim5Fault20GenericVmConfigFault9ExceptionE(vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault)
Note: The virtual machine is registered correctly in ESXi 5.x host.