XvMotion of VM's fail with the error: “Failed to load some of the disks of the virtual machine.”

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• XVmotion(Storage and compute) fails with the following error
  
  

  “Failed to load some of the disks of the virtual machine.”

• Validated the vmkernel.log on the ESXI 
  
  

  Failed waiting for data. Error 195887167. Connection closed by remote host, possibly due to timeout. ###-##-##T18:58:51.725716Z Failed to create one or more destination disks. A fatal internal error occurred. See the virtual machine's log for more details. vMotion migration [18#####8675:8474#####41106] failed to read stream keepalive: Connection closed by remote host, possibly due to timeout

• The disks are stored on the local Storage of the ESXI 

 

Environment

• VMware vCenter Server 7.x
• VMware vCenter Server 8.x

Cause

• This error typically indicates a transient issue where the destination host was temporarily unable to access one or more of the VM’s disk files. Potential causes include temporary file locking, host agent cache inconsistencies, or brief storage/network access delays.
• Stale or Broken Disk Metadata during the first attempt
• Host file cache or metadata sync delay

Resolution

• Re-attempting the XVmotion works successfully