"VM not Compliant" warning message is displayed for one or more Virtual Machine(s) in the VMware Cloud Director UI.

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Virtual Machine(s) has the following warning message displayed in the UI:

VM not Compliant

• The virtual machine(s) is/are part of the correct VM groups and satisfies the Placement policy applied.
• The following message is displayed for the affected virtual machine(s):

Virtual machine is expected to be part of vm groups [VM-Group-1, VM-Group-2] as per its policy. It is currently part of only [VM-Group-1] vm groups.

• The Organization VDCs where the virtual machines reside are backed by a multi-cluster Provider VDC.

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.x

Cause

This is a known issue affecting VMware Cloud Director versions 10.4 and 10.5.

The issue is caused due to a failed backend validation of the vmgroups which will in turn cause the message to be displayed in the UI.

Resolution

This issue will be resolved in a later release of Cloud Director.
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Workaround:
The VMs can be made compliant again by clicking the Make VM Compliant option in the UI.

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
There is no impact or disruption caused by this message. You may choose to ignore the message or follow the workaround/resolution on this article.