When exporting to a ESXi host, the job appears to be progressing, but as soon as the progress bar displays with 0% the job fails with the followoing error:
System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot execute an export task ---> System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> Replay.Common.VddkApi.Contracts.Exceptions.VddkApiOpenFailedException: Operation 'Open' with connection = 'Connection 0x1389321520' path = '[DATASTORE] AGENTNAME/disk0.vmdk' openFlags = 'VIXDISKLIB_FLAG_NONE' failed with Replay.Common.VddkApi.Contracts.Exceptions.VddkApiException: The server refused connection ---> Replay.Common.VddkApi.Contracts.Exceptions.VddkApiException: The server refused connection.
To further troubleshoot, perform the following steps:
1) In a cmd prompt, ping the ESXi host by host name and by IP
2) Execute a nslookup on the ESXi host by host name and by IP
3) Verify that the DNS and/or WINS servers are configured properly and are accessible.
Port 902 needs to be open
Due to the VMWare error event in the Apprecovery logs from the API, further assistance can be consulted by the following solution in VMWare's KBs of this same error:
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