HA Alert : " vSphere HA failover operation in progress in cluster Cluster-x in datacenter "

Products

• VMware Cloud on AWS
• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• "HA failover in progress" alarm triggered on the cluster without VM failover

• There is no option to "Acknowledge" or "Reset to Green" that can be applied.
• Issue is triggered while a VM is powered off
• fdm.log on the Master host reports below
• /var/run/log/fdm.log:

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS Db(167) Fdm[PID]: [Originator@6876 sub=Invt opID=WorkQueue-698849e1] Vm /vmfs/volumes/vsan:<UUID>/########-####-####-####-############/<VM name>.vmx localhost: local power state=powered off; assuming user power off; global power state=powered off
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS Db(167) Fdm[PID]: [Originator@6876 sub=Invt opID=WorkQueue-6c3c3976] vm /vmfs/volumes/vsan:<UUID>/########-####-####-####-############/<VM name>.vmx from __localhost__ changed inventory  actualProtected=1 desireProtected=1

Environment

vCenter Server 7.x

vCenter Server 8.x

Cause

This issue is caused due a race condition between RescanVSan and unprotection due to power-off is setting the desiredProtected=true at the end on unprotection

Resolution

Broadcom is working towards a permanent fix for this issue.

As a workaround, proceed to re-configure vSphere HA on the affected cluster. Refer to Disabling and enabling VMware vSphere High Availability