vCLS VMs do not deploy in a cluster with ESXi 8.0 U3

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

Issue/Introduction

1. Under the cluster summary page, the cluster services panel shows below warnings:

"Cluster Service health" as "Unhealthy" 

and

"Cluster Service type" set to "Embedded vCLS"

2. When you check status of infravisor on an ESXi Host the service it is in down/offline state 

/etc/init.d/infravisor status 

Environment

• VMware vCenter Server Appliance 8.0 U3 
• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0 U3

Cause

Infravisor service on ESXi host is in Not running state. This service should be in Running state.

Resolution

Please start this service by running below command whilst logged into ESXi host through SSH: 

#/etc/init.d/infravisor start