vMotion Fails at 19% with an error "Invalid Source IP Address: "0.0.0.0" on ESXi Host

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• vMotion operation is successful across all ESXi hosts, however fails to or from a specific ESXi host. The following error is seen in vCenter UI: 
  
  Error: A general system error occurred: Launch failure. Failed to start migration: Bad parameter. vMotion migration [0:7############387] init failed. An invalid source IP address was specified: <0.0.0.0>

• Virtual machine migration fails with the task status at 19%.

Cause

• 0.0.0.0 is the representation of invalid address.

• This issue occurs when there is a network interruption causing connectivity issues with assigned IP address.

• In the case of DHCP please confirm if DHCP server is reachable or experiencing delayed responses leading to a timeout.

 

 

Resolution

1. Verify the assigned configured IP for vMotion is reachable by using ping command.

2. If vMotion is configured for the first time
   1. For static, assign a valid unused static IP address
   2. For DHCP, ensure the DHCP server is reachable and assign an IP address within the allowed range.