"No suitable resources found" error while creating an affinity/anti-affinity rule in VMware Cloud Director 10.2.2/10.3.x

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Creating anti-affinity rule in VMware Cloud Director 10.2.2, 10.3.x versions fails with

com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.service.InternalServerErrorException: The operation failed because no suitable resource was found. Out of 1 candidate hubs: 1 hubs eliminated because: No valid storage containers found for VirtualMachine "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx". 1 storage containers rejected because: They do not have enough IOPS capacity

• Unable to create affinity/anti-affinity rule from VMware Cloud director.
• VMware Cloud director Storage Policy has 'vSphere/IOPS' capability enabled.

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.x

Cause

This issue is caused when Cloud Director is validating the IOPS values for vSphere/IOPS enabled storage policies while creating affinity rules. Cloud director should only carry out IOPS validation if Cloud Director IOPS is enabled on the storage policies.

 

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting VMware Cloud Director 10.2.2 and 10.3.x version(s). 
This issue is resolved in VMware Cloud Director 10.4, available at VMware Downloads. and VMware Cloud Director 10.3.3, available at VMware Downloads.

 

 

 

Workaround:
To workaround the issue, make use of the VMware Cloud director IOPS by setting iopsCapacity variable at the datastore level in vCenter as per the knowledge article KB2148300.