When attempting to migrate a virtual machine from one vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) to another, you experience these symptoms:
This issue occurs because there are comparisons being made between the vDS on the source and destination ESXi Hosts/vCenter for the vMotion operation.
vMotion operations between vDS instances that are different versions is not supported.
This is an expected behavior when migrating between mixed vSphere Distributed Switch versions.
To resolve this issue:
Note: The workaround below should only be used for the vMotion between different DVS versions for migrations between on-prem and VMware Cloud.
***If the below workaround is applied to a hot-migration of a VM between two distributed switches that have different versions, the VM may lose network connectivity.***
Workaround:
To work around this issue:
Note: For enabling hybrid mode in vCenter, the target DVS version must be at least 6.0.0.
Destination vDS version | |||||
Source vDS version | 6.5.0 | 6.6.0 | 7.0.0 | 7.0.2 | 7.0.3 |
6.5.0 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
6.6.0 | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
7.0.0 | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
7.0.2 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
7.0.3 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
Destination vDS version | |||||
Source vDS version | 6.5.0 | 6.6.0 | 7.0.0 | 7.0.2 | 7.0.3 |
6.5.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
6.6.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
7.0.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
7.0.2 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
7.0.3 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |