Category: vSAN

Blog VMware vSAN vSphere
28. October 2022

How to fix “vSphere HA initiated a virtual machine failover action”

“vSphere HA initiated a virtual machine failover action” or “HA initiated a failover action in cluster” issue warning message keep showing on my VMware vSAN ROBO cluster. All hosts in the cluster running fine and there is no HA error in logs too. This alert occurs when a Failover occurs in the cluster. Both of the servers are in a production environment and there is […]

Blog VMware vSAN
5. September 2022

Insufficient configured resources to satisfy the desired vSphere HA failover level on Cluster X in Datacenter X

When configuring my vSAN cluster, I forgot to set “in case of maintenance mode, all VMs should be migrated to the other host automatically” under the HA settings. So I made the following settings under Admission Control: Host failures cluster tolerates is at 1, because I have a VMware vSAN ROBO Cluster. So everything was fine and I found out that the Override calculated failover […]

Blog VMware vSAN
22. July 2022

Found another host participating in the vSAN service which is not a member of this host’s vCenter cluster

When reconfiguring my network environment (soon to be seen in the next HomeLab update) the vCenter gave an error message, which you have already read in the subject. In my case, it was about the vSAN Witness appliance. Of course there is also a Knowledge Base article about this error message and the solution according to VMware is: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2062704 To resolve this issue, check all […]