vMotion is disabled after a failed live patch on host

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• ESXi host live patches is failed and which has recovered by rebooting.  
• Virtual machine is failed to migrate to the ESXi host with the error message:
  
  Hot migration is disabled in vmkernel on host <REDACTED_HOSTNAME>
  
  
• Running the command vsish -e get /config/Migrate/intOpts/Enabled returns a current value of 0, which confirms that the migration functionality is disabled.
  
  Vmkernel Config Option {
...
   Current value:0
...
}

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Resolution

To restore vMotion functionality on the affected host:

1. Connect to the ESXi host using an SSH session.
2. Run the following command to enable vMotion functionality.
   
   vsish -e set /config/Migrate/intOpts/Enabled 1
   
   
3. Retry the virtual machine migration to the host.

Additional Information

For more information, see KB article vMotion failing with error 0xbad0020 as migrate module is not enabled on ESXi host