Serial ports created during a P2V process & why you should delete them asap

A quick tip for machines that have just been P2V'd with vConverter: 

Make sure you remove the TTY / serial devices which are automatically created. 

These are class as mapped host devices but unlike a mapped host cd drive, they cannot be disconnected without powering off the new VM.

As a result you can't vMotion the new VM and hence it stops DRS from being able to migrate the VM and also you can't put the host into maintenance mode (such as during a host update patch process)

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