[VMC on AWS] 'vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed' alert on virtual machines

Products

• VMware Cloud on AWS

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
Following alert is observed on vCenter:

Resolution

This alert is triggered whenever a High Availability primary agent declares a host as dead. This alarm does not mean HA has failed or stopped working. When this alert is triggered, it means that one or more virtual machines failed to get powered on by a host in a cluster protected by HA.

If the virtual machines continues to run fine, then the alert can safely be ignored and the user can acknowledge the alert from the vCenter.