Storage migration of VMs failing with error "Cannot connect to profile-driven storage service."

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

When selecting the destination datastore during storage migration of VMs, error appears as "Cannot connect to profile-driven storage service."

Environment

VMware vCenter server 8.x

VMware vCenter server 7.x

Cause

• This issue may occur when the service vmware-sps is in stopped state on vCenter server.
• The Storage management service (SPS) communicates with vCenter Inventory Service while it is running.
• Check the vCenter server services status using the command: # service-control --status --all

Resolution

1. Start vmware-sps service by running below command in vCenter server appliance via SSH: # service-control --start vmware-sps

2. After starting the vmware-sps service, perform the storage migration of VMs.