"REMOVE SELECTED HOSTS" greyed out for all the hosts in the cluster in the SDDC UI.

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager
• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Upon selecting the host to remove from the cluster, the option shows greyed out. 

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 

Cause

• Expected behaviour in case of Stretched Clusters. 
  
  
• All operations on a stretched cluster, including adding hosts, removing hosts, stretching, and unstretching the cluster, are only API supported and not through the SDDC UI.

Resolution

For adding the host to the stretched cluster - Expand a Stretched Cluster in VMware Cloud Foundation

For replacing the host in the stretched cluster - Replace a Failed Host in a Stretched Cluster