Aria Automation deployments are failing with error Provisioning operation failed. Cannot deploy library item

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• Provisioning requests fail with errors similar to:
  
  Provisioning Operation failed. Cannot deploy library item Failed to resolve source datastore file URI

  or

com.vmware.ovfs.ovfs-main.ovfs.transfer_failed Transfer failed: Error during transfer
  
  
• It has been validated that the target cluster for provisioning has access to the content library where image resides
• It may be noticed that reconfigure tasks are failing or taking a long time to complete in vCenter.
• vSAN MTU alarms may be seen in the vSphere Client
  
  

Environment

Aria Automation 8.18.x

Cause

The issue can be caused by networking connectivity issues between Esxi hosts

Resolution

To resolve the issue ensure there are no networking issues between Esxi hosts.

The following articles provide guidance on identifying and recoveing from such scenario's:

Verifying network links for ESXi hosts
Testing VMkernel network connectivity with the vmkping command