Unable to Enable Fault Tolerance (FT) on a Virtual Machine Getting Error: Invalid Virtual Machine Configuration

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Sometimes Enabling FT on a Virtual Machine fails with the Error: "Invalid Virtual Machine Configuration".

 VPXD Logs:
2021-04-11T01:46:30.724Z error vpxd[06631] [Originator@6876 sub=ftUtils opID=qb-3199811:h5ui-getData:com.vmware.vsphere.client.vm.impl.FtDatastoresInfo:100653
5559:rel-01:VmPropertyProvider:7842267-25x0d-h5:70282746-e1] VM [vim.VirtualMachine:vm-400516,EXAMPLE] has unsupported storage policies

Symptoms:
While Enabling Fault Tolerance (FT) on a Virtual Machine gives you the below Error:

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 

Cause

The issue is happening because of the Storage Policies applied to the VM is not supported with Fault Tolerance (FT).

Resolution

Perform a Storage vMotion of the Virtual Machine to another Datastore using the Datastore Default.



Workaround:
NA