DRS places VM on host that doesn't have portgroup at power on

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• User creates VM-a with a certain network port group, but it was powered-on on host-1 which doesn’t configured with the VM’s network configuration.
• During power on, there is a warning message of incompatible network configuration, however the power on was successful.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 

Cause

Network availability compatibility check is not a strict DRS compatibility check requirement for DRS to power on the VM. Meaning, if this compatibility check fails, DRS treat it as not an error but a warning and powers on the VM.

Resolution

In order to force DRS to treat it as an error, reconfigure the VM and select the option 'Connect at power on' for the network adapter. 

If  'Connect at power on' for the network adapter is already configured, please do the steps from Additional Information Section.

 

Additional Information

If you need to contact Broadcom Support regarding this issue, use the following steps to collect the needed information:

• Deploy a VM
• Please wait approximately 5 minutes before you reproduce the error, set the logging to verbose:

Select a vCenter Server instance.

Click Configure tab.

Click General and in the vCenter Server Settings, click EDIT.

In the Edit vCenter general settings window, Click Logging Settings and select verbose from the Log level drop down menu.

Click SAVE.

• Turn on the advance option on DRS.
• Try to deploy VM.
• After deployment please wait a minute as agreed.
• If possible please provide the vmx file.
• Next you can remove verbose logging and remove the advanced settings.
• Provide the above to VMware support.