VMC on AWS vSphere HA virtual machine failover in progress alarm is reported to a powered off VM after scheduled maintenance

Products

• VMware Cloud on AWS

Issue/Introduction

This article provides information about vSphere HA virtual machine failover in progress alarm after scheduled maintenance.

Symptoms:
vSphere HA virtual machine failover in progress alarm is reported to a powered off VM after scheduled host replacement completed:


vSphere HA failover in progress
vSphere HA failover operation in progress in cluster Cluster-1 in datacenter SDDC-Datacenter: 0 VMs being restarted, 1 VMs waiting for a retry, 0 VMs waiting for resources, 0 inaccessible vSAN VMs

In event log, the following message is logged:



Insufficient resources to fail over xxxxx in Cluster-1 that resides in SDDC-Datacenter. vSphere HA will retry the fail over when enough resources are available. Reason: Unable to find healthy compatible hosts for the VM

 

 

Cause

This issue may be caused by a race condition in HA where it accidentally tries to power ON a powered OFF VM due to the cleanPowerOff state of the VM not being true.

Resolution

This alarm is benign and can be safely ignored.

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
There is no operational impact on the SDDC.