diff --git a/go/vt/vttablet/tabletmanager/rpc_vreplication_test.go b/go/vt/vttablet/tabletmanager/rpc_vreplication_test.go
index 0a5bd9f26fd..3f8bc85ac7f 100644
--- a/go/vt/vttablet/tabletmanager/rpc_vreplication_test.go
+++ b/go/vt/vttablet/tabletmanager/rpc_vreplication_test.go
@@ -305,7 +305,6 @@ func TestCreateVReplicationWorkflow(t *testing.T) {
 // results returned. Followed by ensuring that SwitchTraffic
 // and ReverseTraffic also work as expected.
 func TestMoveTablesUnsharded(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Skip("Skipping test temporarily as it is flaky on CI, pending investigation")
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 	defer cancel()
 	sourceKs := "sourceks"
@@ -403,6 +402,9 @@ func TestMoveTablesUnsharded(t *testing.T) {
 		ftc.vrdbClient.AddInvariant(getCopyStateQuery, &sqltypes.Result{})
 		tenv.tmc.setVReplicationExecResults(ftc.tablet, getCopyState, &sqltypes.Result{})
 		ftc.vrdbClient.ExpectRequest(fmt.Sprintf(readAllWorkflows, tenv.dbName, ""), &sqltypes.Result{}, nil)
+		for _, table := range defaultSchema.TableDefinitions {
+			tenv.db.AddQuery(fmt.Sprintf(getNonEmptyTableQuery, table.Name), &sqltypes.Result{})
+		}
 		insert := fmt.Sprintf(`%s values ('%s', 'keyspace:"%s" shard:"%s" filter:{rules:{match:"t1" filter:"select * from t1"}}', '', 0, 0, '%s', 'primary,replica,rdonly', now(), 0, 'Stopped', '%s', %d, 0, 0, '{}')`,
 			insertVReplicationPrefix, wf, sourceKs, sourceShard, tenv.cells[0], tenv.dbName, vreplID)
 		ftc.vrdbClient.ExpectRequest(insert, &sqltypes.Result{InsertID: 1}, nil)
@@ -1780,7 +1782,7 @@ func addInvariants(dbClient *binlogplayer.MockDBClient, vreplID, sourceTabletUID
 		"0",
 	))
 	dbClient.AddInvariant(fmt.Sprintf(updatePickedSourceTablet, cell, sourceTabletUID, vreplID), &sqltypes.Result{})
-
+	dbClient.AddInvariant("update _vt.vreplication set state='Running', message='' where id=1", &sqltypes.Result{})
 }
 
 func addMaterializeSettingsTablesToSchema(ms *vtctldatapb.MaterializeSettings, tenv *testEnv, venv *vtenv.Environment) {