Phantom Warning on vSphere 5 cluster

[Casini]

Good morning, I have been investigating an alarm on a vSphere 5 cluster in vCenter

• I have looked from the cluster down through every level, checking for outstanding alerts or alarms - finding none
  
• There is no production impact, and no reports of VM problems
  
• I've tried disabling alerting and re-enabling - no change
  
• Colleague input and Google have also drawn a blank
  

The only variable I've been unable to rule out is several VM's 'paused' - could this account for the warning, perhaps?

I've attached a jpg to show where the Warning resides - if anyone has any input I'd be grateful for your thoughts

Best regards

J

[AndySimmons]

Apologies if you've tried this already, but have you relaunched the vSphere client? Just asking because it sounds like a bug.

You shouldn't need to drill down to any other entities. If it's a vCenter alarm causing this, it'll be on the alarms tab under triggered alarms for the cluster itself, and if it's a configuration issue, it'll show at the top of the summary tab for the cluster itself. If you've ruled out both of those, you might review the cluster events and see if anything stands out.

[Casini]

Thanks for the input Andy, yeah tried that

I'm going with the bug idea. I've had quite a few people look over this and all are stumped

bummer 😠

[Sreec]

Hi,

    If you are creating a new cluster and adding all the existing host to the new one.Are we seing the same ?

[Casini]

For anyone referencing this thread in future, the answer turns out to be bang-my-head-against-a-server simple

Look in the summary tab - a relevant message can be there as well as the alarms tab. In my case, as follows:

'Configuration issues, vSphere HA initiated a virtual machine failover action in cluster'

Quick Google, and advice was, turn off HA and back on again - boom, problem solved

Didn't even need a Change Control 😉

TGIF

thanks to all for input

[AndySimmons · Accepted solution]

I mentioned the summary tab in my first response.

Glad you solved it!

[pterodactylptim]

This fixed my issue as well! We got the yellow popup after putting the hosts in maintenance mode and then moving them to another switch. Everything came back up fine but then we had that permanent yellow triangle and message in the summary tab. Turning off HA and turning it back on again definitely fixed the issue.