Error: "Unable to relocate VM" and "A specified parameter was not correct: relocateSpec.profile" when editing a VM in Cloud Director
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Error: "Unable to relocate VM" and "A specified parameter was not correct: relocateSpec.profile" when editing a VM in Cloud Director

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Article ID: 435311

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VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

  • When editing VM's in the cloud director UI the changes are saved but the task fails with: "The operation could not be performed because the argument is invalid. A specified parameter was not correct: relocateSpec.profile"
  • Storge Policy for the VM and the VMDK disks are empty.
  • The vApp was previously moved between OrgVDCs.
  • In the /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-debug.log you see entries similar to:

    2026-03-20 13:05:23,214 | DEBUG    | storage-fabric-activity-pool-1005 | VC20VirtualServer              | The target resource pool [vcId=########-####-####-####-############, moref=resgroup-###386] differs from source resource pool [vcId=########-####-####-####-############, moref=resgroup-###428], relocation is necessary | requestId=########-####-####-####-############,request=POST https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-########-####-####-####-############/action/reconfigureVm,requestTime=1774011916166,remoteAddress=##.###.###.###:58280,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:########-####-####-####-############) activity=(com.vmware.ssdc.backend.services.impl.RelocateVmActivity,urn:uuid:########-####-####-####-############) activity=(com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.RelocateStoredVmByStorageClassActivity,urn:uuid:########-####-####-####-############) activity=(com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.storedVm.impl.RelocateStoredVmByDatastoreActivity,urn:uuid:########-####-####-####-############)
    :
    :
    2026-03-20 13:05:27,902 | ERROR    | task-service-activity-pool-3060 | FutureUtil                     | Failed to relocate VM to a Hub | requestId=########-####-####-####-############,request=POST https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-########-####-####-####-############/action/reconfigureVm,requestTime=1774011916166,remoteAddress=##.###.###.###:58280,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:########-####-####-####-############)
    com.vmware.ssdc.util.RelocateException: Unable to relocate VM.
            at com.vmware.vcloud.val.internal.impl.RelocateVmActivity$WaitForInventoryUpdatePhase.invoke(RelocateVmActivity.java:397)
            at com.vmware.vcloud.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.runPhase(ActivityRunner.java:175)
            at com.vmware.vcloud.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.run(ActivityRunner.java:112)
            at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
            at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
            at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
            at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
            at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
    Caused by: com.vmware.vcloud.val.exceptions.TaskManagerException: Task failed, vc-id={########-####-####-####-############}, task-moref={ManagedObjectReference: type = Task, value = task-#######, serverGuid = null}, error={A specified parameter was not correct: relocateSpec.profile}
            at com.vmware.vcloud.val.taskmanagement.AsynchronousTaskWaitActivity$InitialPhase.invoke(AsynchronousTaskWaitActivity.java:149)
            ... 7 more
    Caused by: com.vmware.ssdc.library.exceptions.VimInvalidArgumentException: The operation could not be performed because the argument is invalid. A specified parameter was not correct: relocateSpec.profile
            at com.vmware.ssdc.library.vim.LmVim.Convert(LmVim.java:262)
            at com.vmware.ssdc.library.vim.LmVim.Convert(LmVim.java:502)
            at com.vmware.vcloud.val.taskmanagement.AsynchronousTaskWaitActivity.getResultIfTaskAlreadyCompleted(AsynchronousTaskWaitActivity.java:531)
            at com.vmware.vcloud.val.taskmanagement.AsynchronousTaskWaitActivity$InitialPhase.invoke(AsynchronousTaskWaitActivity.java:143)

Note: VCD can balance the tasks associated with an action across the cells and as such the logs might be spread across different cells in the VCD instance.

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.6.X
VMware Cloud Director 10.5.X

Cause

This issue can occur if the vApp was migrated between OrgVDC's and the migration failed to Move the VM to the correct resource pool.

Resolution

Verify that the VM is in the correct vCenter resource pool. To do this, compare the Data Center name in the Cloud Director UI with the VM's resource pool name in vCenter. If they do not match, move the VM in vCenter to the appropriate OrgVDC resource pool.

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