Enabling 'Health Check' on VDS fails with error : "A specified parameter was not correct: hcConfig.enable. Enabling VLAN health check without distributed port group created is not allowed"

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• While trying to enable health check on VDS with no port groups fails with error : "A specified parameter was not correct: hcConfig.enable. Enabling VLAN health check without distributed port group created is not allowed".
• The VDS will not have any port groups created on it.

Environment

7.x

8.x

Cause

We need to have at least one port group created to enable the health check.

Resolution

We need to have at least one port group created to enable the health check. Create a dummy port group and enable the health check.