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virtual9999 posted Aug 13, 2025 12:34 AM

Hi Community,

I am trying to migrate a VM  ( "testvm1" ) from one cluster to another and get an error saying " you don't have access to prodvm1".. This looks weird to me as I am not doing anything to prodvm1, which is on the same cluster as testvm1.

To give more details:

testvm1 is on ESXi 6.0 Cluster and am trying to migrate to ESXi8.0 Cluster using PowerCLI move-vm command.

prodvm1 is on the same ESXi 6.0 Cluster.

testvm1 and prodvm1 are on the same VLAN, but are on different storage systems and different datastores..

Have already migrated many VMs from other ESXi 6.x clusters on the same vCenter 6.x, but the error is observed for one particular cluster.

Also noticed that the testvm1 can be migrated ( vMotion ) to another node on the same cluster or other clusters on the same vCenter 6.x

Just wondering if anyone has encountered that error described above?

Thank you.

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a_p_

Please allow me a quick question. Are you able to migrate any VM from v6.0 to v8.0?
I'm asking because vCenter Server 8.0 officially only supports ESXi 6.7 and above.

André

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virtual9999

Hi Andre,

Thanks for the message.

To answer your question:

I can migrate any VM from vCenter 6.x / ESX 6.x  to vCenter8.x /ESX 8.x. As mentioned previously, I am using PowerCLI move-vm command.