Performing a vMotion using vCenter Appliance 5.1 or 5.5 fails with the error: pbm.fault.pdm.fault.summary

• Cannot vMotion a virtual machine using vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 or 5.5
• Performing a vMotion using vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 or 5.5 fails
• You see the error:
  
  pbm.fault.pdm.fault.summary
  
  
• In the /var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxd.log file, you see entries similar to:

mem> <YYYY-MM-DD>T<TIME>Z [7FA60BAF5700 error 'commonvpxLro' opID=2601768D-00000B2F-bd-3c] [VpxLRO] Unexpected Exception: pbm.fault.PBMFault
mem> 2013-10-14T18:45:32.536Z [7FA60BAF5700 verbose 'commonvpxLro' opID=2601768D-00000B2F-bd-3c] [VpxLRO] Backtrace:
mem> --> backtrace[00] rip 00007fa6e0b47344 Vmacore::System::Stacktrace::CaptureWork(unsigned int)
mem> --> backtrace[01] rip 00007fa6e0a30082 Vmacore::System::SystemFactoryImpl::CreateQuickBacktrace(Vmacore::Ref<Vmacore::System::Backtrace>&)
mem> --> backtrace[02] rip 00007fa6e09917f5 Vmacore::Throwable::Throwable(std::string const&)
mem> --> backtrace[03] rip 00007fa6e1c3d583 Pbm::Fault::PBMFault::Throw()

mem> <YYYY-MM-DD>T<TIME>Z [7FA60BAF5700 info 'commonvpxLro' opID=2601768D-00000B2F-bd-3c] [VpxLRO] -- FINISH task-internal-844249 --  -- VmprovWorkflow --
mem> <YYYY-MM-DD>T<TIME>Z [7FA60BAF5700 info 'Default' opID=2601768D-00000B2F-bd-3c] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-internal-844249 --  -- VmprovWorkflow: pbm.fault.PBMFault:
mem> --> Result:
mem> --> (pbm.fault.PBMFault) {
mem> -->    dynamicType = <unset>,
mem> -->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
mem> -->    msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:00007fa660be95e0, TCP:localhost:443>]: queryAssociatedProfiles
mem> --> com.vmware.vim.query.client.exception.ClientException: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to https://192.168.15.20:10443 refused",
mem> --> }
mem> --> Args:
mem> -->
mem> <YYYY-MM-DD>T<TIME>Z [7FA60BAF5700 error 'Default' opID=2601768D-00000B2F-bd] (Log recursion level 2) pbm.fault.PBMFault

• In the /var/log/vmware/vpx/inventoryservice/ds.log file, you see entries indicating that the inventory service has failed:
  
  [<YYYY-MM-DD>T<TIME> WrapperListener_start_runner  INFO  com.vmware.vim.vmomi.server.http.impl.TcServer] Starting server on [HTTP:0.0.0.0:10080, HTTPS:0.0.0.0:10443]
  [<YYYY-MM-DD>T<TIME> WrapperListener_start_runner  FATAL com.vmware.vim.dataservices.WrapperListenerImpl] Error starting service:
  org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataservice' defined in class path resource [server/config/server-config.xml]: Invocation
   of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
          at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1336)
          at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:471)
          at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
          at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)