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 no issue while provisioning a VM. Once the configuration issues warning message appears, you can no longer suppress it and there is no chance to acknowledge, “reset to green” or see which machine was migrated.

The detailed message as below:

vSphere HA initiated a failover action 1 virtual machines in cluster “ClusterName” in datacenter “DatacenterName“

This article will show you the solution to resolve this configuration issues warning message. Follow the below solution steps to resolve “vSphere HA initiated a virtual machine failover action” configuration issues.

Solution: Disable vSphere HA and Enable vSphere HA Again

Step 1: From the vSphere Client, click on the Cluster -> Configure -> vSphere Availability

Step 2: vSphere HA is turned ON, edit vSphere HA and toggle to OFF, hit OK and wait for all hosts to complete unconfigured for HA.

Step 3: Toggle vSphere HA to ON and wait for all hosts to complete the HA configuration.

Step 4: The configuration issues warning will disappear.

And that is it from this small Tutorial. If you have any questions please leave it in the comment section below 🙂