Deploying a virtual machine from a template to a VMware vSphere Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster fails with error: "Fault - NoCompatibleDatastore"

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• Cannot a deploy virtual machine from a template to a VMware vSphere Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster.
• Deploying a virtual machine from a template to a VMware vSphere Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster fails.
• You see the error:
  
  Fault - NoCompatibleDatastore
  
  
• You see the alert:
  
  Datastore is in multiple datacenters alert is triggered.

Environment

• VMware vCenter Server 6.0.x
• VMware vCenter Server 5.0.x
• VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x
• VMware vCenter Server 5.5.x

Cause

This issue occurs when the datastore is shared among multiple clusters.

Resolution

Ensure that the datastore is shared only on one cluster.