Validation failures are seen when starting an HCX migration

Products

• VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

• A mobility group is created and a VM has been selected for migration.
• After clicking the Go or Validate buttons to start the migration, it fails to validate and messages similar to the following are seen
  
  One or more VMs have errors, cannot proceed with migration.
You may retry validation after fixing the issues.
Some Migrations can not be started!

Migration type is not specified!
Destination Container is not specified!
Not all networks are mapped!
Destination Data Storage is not specified!

Environment

VMware HCX

Cause

This behavior can occur when one or more of the following are not specified:

• Compute Container
• Storage
• Migration Profile
• Destination Network

Resolution

Ensure that all items marked Mandatory in the Mobility Group wizard are configured appropriately.

Additional Information

Migrating Virtual Machines with Mobility Groups