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Mansie
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Error Powering On a VM- Unable to perform this action.

Hi,

I am having trouble powering on vms and vApps, in vCloud.

When a vm is powered on using code, it throws an exception-  Unable to perform this action. Contact your vCloud administrator.

And this also happens when I manually try to start(power On) a vApp or vm, it says "Cannot Start" and the details show the same message "Unable to perform this action. Contact your vCloud administrator."

The vcd is upgraded to 5.1, and was working fine after that, but we suddenly started seeing this issue.

Also this is intermittent, happens with some vms and for some it power Ons fine.

What could be the reason? Please help.

Regards,

Mansi

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thomas_root1
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Hi mansi,

do you have enougth resources in your vDC (RAM,CPU, Network).

Or a limit for provisioning vapps?

If you run again in this error, look in your vsphere-client if there is an error, too.

Regards,

Thomas

Mansie
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Hi Thomas,

Yes we do have enough resources, still it throws the exception while powering on, and this happens  sometimes not always. Is there any fix? anything that could help in solving this?

Regards,

Mansi

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Mansie
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Hi Thomas,

It was a resource availability problem, this error happened whenever the count had reached to the maximum resources.

Thanks a lot for your help Smiley Happy

Regards,

Mansi

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Mansie
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Thanks

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hbhat
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Hi Mansie,

I am also facing the problem. How did you figured out resource availability problem.You have also mentioned, count had reached to the maximum resources.

Which resource reached the maximum and how did you check the same?

Regards,

Harish

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mjha
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Harish there is a quota set for how many VM's can be running in a virtual datacenter (Org VDC). If the quota is set to 50 and you have already 50 running VM's in your vDC, then you might be able to deploy a new vApp/VM (based on quota for how many can be provisioned), but you won't be able to power it on even if you have CPU/Memory/Storage/Network resources available to you

Please consider marking this answer "correct" or "helpful" if you think your query have been answered correctly. Manish Jha | Operations Support Engineer | vCloud Air Operations vExpert 2015-17 | vExpert-NSX | vExpert-Cloud | VCAP6-DCV | VCP6-DCV | RHCE-7 Website : http://vstellar.com
RM_24
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Thanks, it worked for me.

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