Aria Operations Capacity - What-if Analysis error 'You need to have at least one cluster in private cloud to be able to create scenario of this type'

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• When attempting to create a Workload Planning: Traditional scenario you receive the following error:
  • 'You need to have at least one cluster in private cloud to be able to create scenario of this type'

Environment

Aria Operations 8.x

Cause

• What-if scenarios - Workload Planning: Traditional, will not work with a vSAN enabled cluster.
  • Use the Workload Planning: Hyperconverged option for vSAN enabled clusters.
  • See the next point if you only have the Traditional option and do not see the Hyperconverged or any other option.
• You are using the Aria Operations Standard edition license.
  • Standard edition does not support What-if for vSAN enabled clusters.
    • see Aria Operations editions for more details.

Resolution

• Apply an Advanced or Enterprise license to the cluster.