Witness host space efficiency differs from the rest of the cluster.
Article ID: 326898
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Products
VMware vSAN
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
"Invalid virtual machine configuration. Object policy is not compatible with datastore space efficiency policy configured on the cluster" error message.
"Invalid virtual machine configuration. Object policy is not compatible with datastore space efficiency policy configured on the cluster" error message.
Environment
VMware vSAN 7.0.x
VMware vSAN 6.7.x
VMware vSAN 6.5.x
VMware vSAN 6.7.x
VMware vSAN 6.5.x
Cause
Cannot create an object in a stretch cluster or a ROBO cluster with space efficiency policy set to "Compression only" or "Deduplication and compression".
Witness always has a space efficiency of None. Due to this, when creating an object in a stretch cluster or a ROBO cluster with space efficiency policy set to "Compression only" or "Deduplication and compression", the object creation will fail with "Invalid virtual machine configuration. Object policy is not compatible with datastore space efficiency policy configured on the cluster" error message.
Witness always has a space efficiency of None. Due to this, when creating an object in a stretch cluster or a ROBO cluster with space efficiency policy set to "Compression only" or "Deduplication and compression", the object creation will fail with "Invalid virtual machine configuration. Object policy is not compatible with datastore space efficiency policy configured on the cluster" error message.
Resolution
Upgrade vCenter and ESXi to 8.0
Workaround:
To workaround this issue select "no preference" as space efficiency preference when creating the storage policy
This will result in the space efficiency defaulting to the the selected datastore.
Workaround:
To workaround this issue select "no preference" as space efficiency preference when creating the storage policy
Additional Information
Impact/Risks:
Object creation fails
Object creation fails
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