Virtual machines that are running and fully functional in vCenter Server do not display correctly in the Inventory view of the ESX/ESXi host on which they are registered.
Virtual machines appear in an Orphaned state in vCenter Server.
Removing the host from vCenter Server does not resolve the Orphaned state.
The vm-support -x command does not contain all of the virtual machine's registered on the host.
When the host is re-added to inventory, vCenter Server reports this error:
Not enough licenses to perform this operation
The vCenter Server log file contains this error from Licmgr:
Bad host information for host
The vpxa.log file on the ESX host contains the error:
[2008-11-05 15:13:52.869 'App' 7490480 warning] ============BEGIN FAILED METHOD CALL DUMP============ [2008-11-05 15:13:52.870 'App' 7490480 warning] Invoking [GetLayout] on [vim.VirtualMachine:10496] [2008-11-05 15:13:52.870 'App' 7490480 warning] Fault Msg: "A general system error occurred: Failed to serialize result" [2008-11-05 15:13:52.870 'App' 7490480 warning] ============END FAILED METHOD CALL DUMP============