Bulk Migration Switchover failed with an error: "Can not poweroff vm as tools not available/not running and forcePoweroff is not set."

Products

• VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

• Bulk Migration switchover failed with the following error:
  Can not poweroff vm as tools not available/not running and forcePoweroff is not set.

Environment

VMware HCX

Cause

VMware Tools must be installed on the guest OS in order to shut down the virtual machine during a Bulk Migration.

 

Resolution

Please ensure that VMware Tools is running on the guest OS.