vMotion not showing all available hosts in the Cluster in vSphere 6.5 when the virtual machine is configured with a local datastore swap

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
When attempting to vMotion a virtual machine within a cluster not all hosts will show within the Select a compute resource:

• Selecting Change both compute resource and storage, will display all hosts in the cluster within the Select compute resource.
• This occurs on the vSphere Client (HTML 5) and vSphere Web client.

• Virtual machine is configured with a local datastore swap

Resolution

This issue is resolved in vSphere 6.5 Update 3 available at VMware Download

Workaround:



Workaround: 1   In the migration page select "Change both compute resource and storage" 

Workaround: 2   From the vSphere Web Client select an affected Virtual Machine and click Launch Remote  console. Once it is loaded, close the session

1. Run the migration again.

Note: This work around may need to be ran again as it does not permanently resolve the issue.

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