"Insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover level for vSphere HA" error while powering ON Nutanix CVM VMs

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• vSphere HA is enabled on the cluster.
• CVM VMs are unable to power ON if vSphere HA is in enabled state.
• If vSphere HA is disabled, CVM VMs are successfully able to power ON.

Environment

• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.x
• VMware vSphere ESXi 7.x
• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.x

Resolution

Disable Admission Control in the vSphere HA settings. Please follow the below steps :

• Select the cluster on which the CVM VMs are unable to power ON.
• Go to Configure > vSphere Availability > Edit.
• Go to Admission Control and change the Define Host failover capacity by option to Disabled.
• Save the settings.
• CVM VMs should be able to power ON with vSphere HA enabled on the cluster.