False 'vSphere HA failover in progress' alarms triggered.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

False VM failover alarms for powered off or deleted VMs are displayed.

No VMs are actually failed over.

Cause

The VMs are deleted from vSphere before they are unprotected from HA, resulting in vCenter issuing a false failover alarm.

Resolution

This is a known issue that will be resolved in future release of vSphere.

Workaround:

Disable / enable vSphere HA.

1. Select the cluster in vSphere Client.
2. Configure > Services > vSphere Availability
3. Edit
4. Toggle off vSphere HA > OK
5. Edit
6. Toggle on vSphere HA > OK