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title: "VmTimedoutStartingSecondaryEvent"
description: "This event records timeout when starting a secondary VM. Starting the secondary VM timed out within N ms. A default alarm will be triggered upon this event. You may be experiencing network latency that is causing the timeout."
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breadcrumb: "Veeam MP for VMware Online Knowledge Base > Event-Based Rules > Virtual Machine Error > VmTimedoutStartingSecondaryEvent"
dateModified: "2026-09-10"
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# VmTimedoutStartingSecondaryEvent

## Summary

This event records timeout when starting a secondary VM.

## Causes

Starting the secondary VM timed out within N ms. A default alarm will be triggered upon this event.

## Resolutions

You may be experiencing network latency that is causing the timeout. Refer to [this VMware KB article](http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1020058) for more information on testing your Fault Tolerant Configuration.

## External

Refer to the [VMware Online Documentation](https://techdocs.broadcom.com/) for more information.