Deployment fails with "storage containers rejected because they do not have enough storage capacity"
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Deployment fails with "storage containers rejected because they do not have enough storage capacity"

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Article ID: 425045

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Products

VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

When performing re-onboarding activities, provisioning new vApps, or adding disks in VMware Cloud Director (VCD), the task fails with the following error:

"The operation failed because no suitable resources was found. [#] storage containers rejected because they do not have enough storage capacity."

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 

Cause

The VCD Placement Engine rejects storage containers (datastores) based on two primary constraints:

  1. Logical Quota Exhaustion: The specific Storage Policy assigned to the Organization VDC has reached its configured "Limit."
  2. Physical Threshold Violation: The underlying datastores in the Provider VDC have crossed the Red Threshold (default: 2GB or 15% free space). When a datastore enters a "Red" state, VCD excludes it from the placement engine to prevent host-level "out of space" conditions.

Resolution

Method 1: Increase Organization VDC Storage Quota

  1. Log in to the VMware Cloud Director Provider Portal.

  2. Navigate to Resources > Cloud Resources > Organization VDCs.

  3. Select the affected Organization VDC.

  4. In the left navigation pane, select Storage > Storage Policies.

  5. Locate the policy used by the failing VM/vApp.

  6. Click Edit.

  7. Increase the Limit (MB) to a value higher than the current "Used" amount, or select Unlimited.

  8. Click Save.

Method 2: Verify and Resolve Physical Capacity Issues

  1. Navigate to Resources > Cloud Resources > Provider VDCs.

  2. Select the Provider VDC backing the affected OVDC.

  3. Click the Storage tab and select Datastores.

  4. Check the State column. If any datastore is in a Red state:

    • Increase the physical capacity of the LUN/Volume in the storage array and expand it in vCenter Server.

    • Alternatively, migrate non-critical VMs off the datastore in vCenter.

  5. VCD will automatically refresh the datastore status within 5 minutes. To force a refresh, go to Infrastructure Resources > vCenter Server Instances, select the vCenter, and click Reconnect.

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