{"id":75,"date":"2015-09-07T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/?p=75"},"modified":"2019-02-10T19:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T00:13:06","slug":"a-general-system-occured-pbm-error-occurred-during-premigratecheckcallback-connection-refused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"A general system occured: PBM error occurred during PreMigrateCheckCallback: Connection refused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day!<\/p>\n<p>I recently received multiple errors within my home lab when trying to vMotion Machines.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A general system occured: PBM error occurred during PreMigrateCheckCallback: Connection refused\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PBM-Error.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PBM-Error.png\" alt=\"PBM-Error\" width=\"684\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PBM-Error.png 684w, http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PBM-Error-300x19.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first time i have seen this error in 6 years of Administrating a vSphere environment!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resolution:<\/strong><br \/>\nVarious community posts pointed in the direction of a failed or not running service. in this case Profile-Drive Storage Service<\/p>\n<p>(I am using the VCSA 6.0)<\/p>\n<p>ssh into the VCSA<br \/>\nRun the following command to check the status sure enough the service was not running<br \/>\n<strong>service vmware-sps status<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPS-Service1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPS-Service1.png\" alt=\"SPS-Service1\" width=\"622\" height=\"47\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPS-Service1.png 622w, http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPS-Service1-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To start the service:<\/p>\n<p><strong>service vmware-sps start<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPS-Service2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-80 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPS-Service2.png\" alt=\"SPS-Service2\" width=\"672\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPS-Service2.png 672w, http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPS-Service2-300x35.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again all VM&#8217;s are happily vmotioning around!<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have also found the following VMware Knowledge Based Article which also could have helped &#8211; though a slightly differ ant error &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=2118557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB2118557<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=mad_manc\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day! I recently received multiple errors within my home lab when trying to vMotion Machines. A general system occured: PBM error occurred during PreMigrateCheckCallback: Connection refused\u00a0 This is the first time i have seen this error in 6 years of Administrating a vSphere environment! Resolution: Various community posts pointed in the direction of a failed or not running service. in this case Profile-Drive Storage Service (I am using the VCSA 6.0) ssh into the VCSA Run the following command to check the status sure enough the service was not running service vmware-sps status To start the service: service vmware-sps start Once again all VM&#8217;s are happily vmotioning around! 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