topic Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment in VMware vCenter™ Discussions

vCSA HA failed during deployment

MarosNZ — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:03:25 GMT

vCSA HA deployment failing during task "Clone virtual machine" at the very beginning.

Error description:

A specified parameter was not correct: spec.pool

Details from vpxd.log

2018-09-05T12:00:39.785+01:00 info vpxd[7F3335832700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=FlowBasedWizard-apply-237111-

ngc:70017466-5b] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-12848 -- FailoverClusterConfigurator -- vim.vcha.FailoverClusterConfigurator.

deploy: vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument:

--> Result:

--> (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument) {

--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

--> faultMessage = <unset>,

--> invalidProperty = "spec.pool"

--> msg = "A specified parameter was not correct: spec.pool"

--> }

Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment

SupreetK — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:21:19 GMT

Are you deploying the Passive and Witness in the same cluster as of the Active node? Is the Active vCenter node part of a resource pool?

Cheers,

Supreet

Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment

MarosNZ — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:30:39 GMT

There are no resource pools.

I'm deploying in two clusters. Active and Witness on first one and Passive on second one.

vCSA HA was already deployed but due to some authentication issues (only on passive node) it was destroyed yesterday.

We wanted to recreate it from scratch but unfortunately this is not possible due to cloning issue.

When I tried manually clone vCSA it worked.

Thanks for any help...

Maros

Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment

SupreetK — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:34:03 GMT

Can you try creating both Passive and Witness on the same cluster? Once created, you can move them to the required cluster.

Cheers,

Supreet

Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment

MarosNZ — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:02:46 GMT

Until now it is running.

It looks that there is issue between clusters.

Many thanks

Maros

Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment

ShaveenPurmessu — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 07:34:28 GMT

Hello Supreet,

I have just deploy a vCenter server appliance 6.5 on a MGMT cluster with 2 hosts with no resource pool. We have also another cluster(MAIN) with 16 hosts and communication between the cluster is fine. The MAIN cluster contains resource pools.

I have deployed vCenter HA using the basic method. I chose the second host in the MGMT cluster for the passive node and one host in the MAIN cluster for the witness node.

Initial cloning of the active node to create the passive node works fine without issues but it cannot clone the active node to form the witness on the MAIN cluster.

Error : ''A specified parameter was not correct: spec.pool''

Could you please help what I have done wrong?

Thank you

Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment

blushta — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 20:20:53 GMT

Hello there,

I have the same problem, did you manage to solve the problem?

Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment

demiurgII — Tue, 11 May 2021 22:07:04 GMT

Hi,

before HA configuration, please put all hosts (for PEER, WITNESS and VCSA) into the same cluster after that install HA and after that move all hosts to appropriate clusters.

Best Regards,

Ruslan.

Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment

blushta — Fri, 14 May 2021 14:16:37 GMT

Thank you Ruslan, that solved my problem.

Sincerely

B.l

Re: vCSA HA failed during deployment

StainlessSteele — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:28:02 GMT

What if the alternate Cluster has a different IP address scheme. Can you build and relocate?