A General System Error occurred. Communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted

Setup
  • VMware vCenter 5.1
  • ESXi 5.1 GA build (799733)
  • SRM 5.0

 Issue
  • At the time of Test Failover VM unable to Power ON and threw up error A general system error occurred. The system returned an error. Communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted.
  • Post Analysis we found it created lock files(.lck-xxxx),  because of intermittent network connection as we were using NFS data stores

Resolution/WorkAround

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