Today I was importing some virtual machines (delivered by a 3rd party company) to the new vSphere 5 environment of a customer, the import was successful but after a vMotion I received this warning:

Module Migrate power on failed.
vMotion migration [168099940:1334234558581378] failed. The checkpoint data length (16384 bytes) or the offset (16776528 bytes) exceeds the maximum checkpoint data length (16777216 byte).

Solution:

The owner of the template installed the OS with a 1920 x 1080 resolution, after changing the resolution to 1280 x 1024 the GFX memory usage degraded to normal (under 30 MB).

After changing the resolution I was able to migrate the virtual machines,

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Sander Daems is founder and author of this blog and working as a Lead (Sr.) Consultant by UNICA ICT Solutions. Sander has over 15 years experience in IT, primary focus: virtualization and modern worksplace.

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