A Virtual Machine creation fails. How do I troubleshoot this?

Solution

• Check the creation failure error message in the operation log to identify the cause. If the creation still fails, check the following:

• Verify that the Image Storage is available and that the link for downloading images to Data Storage is functioning normally.

• Verify that the Data Storage is attached to the Cluster and has sufficient capacity.

• Verify that the Host is available and has sufficient CPU and memory resources.

• Verify that the Cluster has the corresponding Distributed Switch attached.

• Verify that the Distributed Port Group has available IP addresses.

• Verify that the platform license is within its validity period.

• Verify that the libvirtd and kvmagent services on the Host are running normally.

• If the Virtual Machine status remains "Starting," verify whether a large image is causing a long image cache download time.