Cloud Director Placement Failing when changing Storage Policy for VM Due to Affinity Requirements

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

When updating VM Storage Policy all Storage is being rejected except for the current location of the VM listing Affinity Requirements.

Filename: /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-debug.log 

####-##-## ##:##:##,### | DEBUG    | task-service-activity-pool-### | AffinityDatastoreFilter        | Message[INFO]: Cannot use datastore cluster [vcId=########-####-####-####-############, moref=group-p#####] for subject [type:VIRTUAL_MACHINE, URI:########-####-####-####-############ because of affinity requirements. | requestId=########-####-####-####-############,request=POST https://[Cloud Director Site]/api/vApp/vm-d########-####-####-####-############/action/reconfigureVm,requestTime=#############,remoteAddress=###.###.###.###:56146,userAgent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 ...,accept=application/*+xml;version 40.0.0-alpha vcd=########-####-####-####-############,task=########-####-####-####-############ activity=(com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity,urn:uuid:########-####-####-####-############) 

Environment

Cloud Director 10.6

Cause

Disabled Methods exist on VM in vCenter:

MigrateVM_Task

RelocateVM_Task

Resolution

Remove Disabled methods (MigrateVM_Task and RelocateVM_Task) from VM.

Please refer to the following documentation to remove Disabled Methods from VM in vCenter - 'Delete from disk' and 'remove from Inventory' options grayed out for Virtual Machines on vSphere Client