We have been having issues recently when trying to clone a VM in SCVMM. The error we were seeing was:
Error (2912): "An internal error has occurred trying to contact the
For us the issue appeared to be the same as this page:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nitinsingh/2015/03/31/getting-error-er…
Even though the error message reported a problem with the target server, the actual issue was that the source server's SCVMM certificate was not synced correctly between the server and SCVMM. The solution was to run the following powershell from within a Virtual Machine Manager powershell:
$credential = get-credential Get-VMMManagedComputer -ComputerName "SourceHostName" | Register-SCVMMManagedComputer -Credential $credential