Mobility Group creation fails with "Validation couldn't be performed at the peer as it is not reachable"

Products

• VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

When creating a mobility group the error message "Validation couldn't be performed at the peer as it is not reachable".  

All Service Mesh diagnostics report back as successful

 

Cause

If the Virtual Machine that is being migrated resides on the Source Mobility Agent host it will trigger this error message during the Mobility Group creation. 

Resolution

Migrate the Virtual Machine within the Source environment to a host within the cluster and reattempt the Mobility Group creation.