Deploying OVF to a vSAN cluster fails with "the operation is not allowed in the current state"

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Deploying an OVF to a vSAN cluster fails with:
  the operation is not allowed in the current state
• Cluster task has the following:
  Call DRS for cross vmotion placement recommendations

Environment

VMware vSAN 6.x

Cause

This is caused because the OVF template with Storage Policy requires the cluster DRS-enabled. So, the deployment process fails to find a target datastore corresponding to the Storage Policy in OVF.

Resolution

Ensure you have an Enterprise license or higher
Enable DRS

See VMware vSphere Compute Virtualization for more licensing information.