Over the Easter holiday I turned off my home lab which includes vSphere and vCloud. I powered it down using methods which I thought best for different aspects of my lab so for example if vApps\/VMs were under the control of vCloud Director I used VCD to shut them down. After returning I attempted to power up my lab but I noticed that vApps\/VMs in vCloud failed to start with the following error:<\/p>\n
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The operation could not be performed because the object is in an invalid state.<\/strong><\/pre>\nI googled and tweeted for advice but couldn\u2019t get a good thread to why this would happen.\u00a0 I was planning all kind of resolutions like cloning out of VCD and back in again which didn\u2019t work. As a last resort I attempted to power on the VMs through the vSphere Client. I then noticed that DPM then went about powering up my host which was in standby which was weird because nothing was running on the existing cluster host. I then started to think there are some dependencies that these VMs needed that wasn\u2019t being fulfilled by the powered on host.\u00a0 OK I knew compute wasn\u2019t an issue and I could see all datastores so I started to probe around the network config. I had purposefully configured DVS switches for my VCD setup and that\u2019s when I noticed \u201cLINK DOWN\u201d. My DVS switches only had 1 uplink each\u2026. #fail. After checking I noticed that the Ethernet cable was dislodged. #Fix\u2026\u2026 The moral of this story is sometimes error messages are misleading or not welled described.<\/p>\n
Maybe VMware should look into hooking into DPM to automate the resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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