HCX - Migration fails with "Services are not enabled on the deployed Service Mesh"

Products

• VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

• When completing a Cold migration for a powered off VM, the following ERROR is generated : "Services are not enabled on the deployed Service Mesh"
  
  
  

Cause

This migration method uses the VMware NFC protocol. It is automatically selected when the source virtual machine is powered off.

Resolution

• From the HCX Console, navigate to Interconnect > Compute Profiles. Edit the required Compute Profile and select  "Cross-cloud vMotion Migration"  and continue till the end and save.
  

• After adding the  "Cross-cloud vMotion Migration " service  resync the service mesh.

• Attempt the migration again 

Additional Information

Other types of migrations may be affected.