Symptoms
- After applying a host profile from an ESXi 5.0 Update 1 host to an ESXi 5.0 host, you see the error:
A general system error occurred - In the vpxa.log file, you see an error similar to:
2012-04-03T12:51:02.024Z [3B89DB90 info 'Default' opID=5F9B6375-00000B07-56] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-internal-148 -- -- vim.profile.host.profileEngine.HostProfileManager.execute: vmodl.fault.SystemError:
--> Result:
--> (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [
--> (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "com.vmware.vim.profile.engine.UnexpectedError",
--> arg = (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) [
--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "context",
--> value = "Exception while executing profile",
--> },
--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "error",
--> value = "'VirtualNICNamePolicy'",
--> }
--> ],
--> message = "Error: "'VirtualNICNamePolicy'".",
--> }
--> ],
--> reason = "",
--> msg = "A general system error occurred: "
--> }
--> Args:
Cause
Resolution
To work around this issue, VMware recommends upgrading the target ESXi 5.0 host to 5.0 Update 1.
If this is not possible, generate a new host profile for the ESXi 5.0 host, instead of applying an existing ESXi 5.0 Update 1 host profile.
