vMotion fails with the error: A general system error occurred: Failed waiting for data. Error bad0007. Bad parameter

Symptoms:

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  Migrating virtual machines fails when one of the following occurs:
  
  
  
  
  
  • You enable Migrate.MemChksum (value is set to 1) on both source and destination ESX hosts.
  
  
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    The virtual machine has a memory size of more than 4GB
  
  
  
  


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  The migration times out and the following error appears in the vmware.log file: MigrateStatusFailure: Failed waiting for data. Error bad0007. Bad parameter>and the VMware Infrastructure Client reports the following error:
  
  A general system error occurred: Failed waiting for data. Error bad0007. Bad parameter.
  
  


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  vMotion fails at 10%

Resolution:

Configure the value of the following variables in the source and the destination ESX hosts. The variables are available at Configuration > Advanced Settings > Migrate.  

• Migrate.PageInTimeoutResetOnProgress: Set the value to 1.


• Migrate.PageInProgress: Set the value to 30, if you get an error after configuring theMigrate.PageInTimeoutResetOnProgress variable.


• Toggle the Migrate.enabled setting from 1 to 0, click OK, then flip the value back to 1, click OK.