FT Problem Decoder Chart

July 10th, 2009 by jason Leave a reply »

Receiving errors while trying to configure FT (Fault Tolerance) on a VM and stumped as to the reason why? This may help. Take a look at the vCenter server log in your vSphere Client and find the entry when the FT error occurred (the vCenter server log lists events in chronological order from oldest to newest, be sure to choose the correct log file as there are several to choose from). More specifically, look for the line reason = “blah blah blah”. In this case, the reason is “replayNotSupported”.

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Next, open your web browser and surf to this vSphere API 4.0 link titled “Enum – VmFaultToleranceConfigIssueReasonForIssue”. This is a cross reference chart that lists common sense explanations for the “reason” code above. According to the chart, “replayNotSupported” is explained as:

“It is not possible to turn on Fault Tolerance on this powered-on VM. The support for record/replay should be enabled or Fault Tolerance turned on, when this VM is powered off.”

The root cause for the example shown above is the processors support FT, however, not while the VM is powered on. For the AMD Opteron 2356 Barcelona processors, FT is supported but the VMs must be in a powered off state to enable FT, which leads me to my next blog entry

Here is a copy of the chart:

Name Description
ftSecondaryVm The virtual machine is a fault tolerance secondary virtual machine
ftUnsupportedHardware The host ftSupported flag is not set because of hardware issues
ftUnsupportedProduct The host ftSupported flag is not set because of it is a VMware Server 2.0
haNotEnabled HA is not enabled on the cluster
hasLocalDisk The virtual machine has one or more disks on local datastore
hasSnapshots The virtual machine has one or more snapshots
hostInactive The host is not active
missingFTLoggingNic FT logging nic is not configured on the host
missingVMotionNic No VMotion license or VMotion nic is not configured on the host
moreThanOneSecondary There is already a secondary virtual machine for the primary virtual machine
multipleVCPU The virtual machine has more than one virtual CPU
noConfig No configuration information is available for the virtual machine
recordReplayNotSupported The virtual machine does not support record/replay. Vm::Capability.RecordReplaySupported is false.
replayNotSupported It is not possible to turn on Fault Tolerance on this powered-on VM. The support for record/replay should be enabled or Fault Tolerance turned on, when this VM is powered off.
templateVm The virtual machine is a template
thinDisk The virtual machine has thin provisioned disks
verifySSLCertificateFlagNotSet The “check host certificate” flag is not set
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  1. chad king says:

    Interesting:
    http://communities.vmware.com/message/1624203#1624203

    Login error from an FT? Could use some ideas if you have any.