Operations with virtual machines such as migration or taking a snapshot fail with InvalidState fault

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

Issue/Introduction

Due to an authentication issue, VM operations such as migration or taking a snapshot fail with the respective errors:
In the hostd.log, it's report "vim.fault.InvalidState"

--hostd.log
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Db(167) Hostd[5175907]: [Originator@6876 sub=Solo.Vmomi opID=########-##-## sid=######## user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Arg auth:
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Db(167) Hostd[5175829]: --> (vim.vm.guest.SAMLTokenAuthentication) {
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Db(167) Hostd[5175829]: -->    interactiveSession = false, 
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Db(167) Hostd[5175829]: -->    token = (not shown), 
...
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Db(167) Hostd[5175907]: [Originator@6876 sub=Solo.Vmomi opID=########-##-## sid=######## user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Arg pids:
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Db(167) Hostd[5175829]: --> (long) []
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ In(166) Hostd[5175907]: [Originator@6876 sub=Solo.Vmomi opID=########-##-## sid=######## user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Throw vmodl.fault.SystemError
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ In(166) Hostd[5175907]: [Originator@6876 sub=Solo.Vmomi opID=########-##-## sid=######## user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] Result:
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ In(166) Hostd[5175829]: --> (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ In(166) Hostd[5175829]: -->    reason = "", 
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ In(166) Hostd[5175829]: -->    msg = "", 
...
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Er(163) Hostd[5793121]: [Originator@6876 sub=Vmsvc.vm:/vmfs/volumes/#####-#####-####-######/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx opID=mb7xgi9e-785-auto-lu-h5:#####-#####-####-###### sid=######## user=vpxuser:user\domain] Invalid transition requested (VM_STATE_GUEST_OPERATION -> VM_STATE_CREATE_SNAPSHOT): Invalid state
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ In(166) Hostd[5793121]: [Originator@6876 sub=AdapterServer opID=mb7xgi9e-785-auto-lu-h5:########-##-## sid=######## user=vpxuser:user\domain] AdapterServer caught exception; <<#####-#####-####-######, <TCP '127.0.0.1 : 8307'>, <TCP '127.0.0.1 : 59528'>>, 39, vim.VirtualMachine.createSnapshot, <vim.version.v8_0_3_0, internal, 8.0.3.0>, (null)>, N3Vim5Fault12InvalidState9ExceptionE(Fault cause: vim.fault.InvalidState

In the vpxa.log, it's report "vim.fault.InvalidState"
--vpxa.log
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ In(166) Vpxa[6928952]: [Originator@6876 sub=vpxLro opID=mb7xgi9e-785-auto-lu-h5:########-##-##] [VpxLRO] -- BEGIN task-##### -- vpxa -- vpxapi.VpxaService.createSnapshot -- #####-#####-####-######
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Er(163) Vpxa[6928952]: [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=mb7xgi9e-785-auto-lu-h5:########-##-##] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-##### -- #####-#####-####-###### -- vpxa -- vpxapi.VpxaService.createSnapshot: :vim.fault.InvalidState

Environment

VMware ESXi 8.0

Resolution

This issue is resolved in the VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3h (Build 25067014)

Additional Information

VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3h Release Notes
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/8-0/release-notes/esxi-update-and-patch-release-notes/vsphere-esxi-80u3h-release-notes.html