The way this works is that once a datastore reaches the 25% (Yellow) stage VCD starts to e-mail warnings to the configured e-mail adres. You can also have a look at how this works at the following page. By default the Yellow threshold is 25% of the capacity of the datastore. On this page there are two categories “Threshold Yellow” and “Threshold Red”. If you don’t have this bug, you can click on the datastore and the following page comes up: VCD Default storage container view If you are having this issue, you can use any other browser.

This is only present if you are using Chrome ( Bug page). In certain VCD 10.2.x builds there is a bug which prevents you from clicking the datastore name. In this window you will see something like this: Storage Containers view in a pVDC in VCD. You should be able to edit the thresholds if you go to the datastores in the VCD UI -> Provider VDCs -> Select a pVDC -> Storage Containers. If you didn’t know that VCD enforces it’s own thresholds within the portal to ensure that the environment is not filled up to 100% and causes impact, you know it now! Fortunately these can easily be tuned for us Provider users. This pre-check is actually done many times, on each and every edit on the Virtual Machine that is! The above error message is explaining to us that there are no available datastores to deploy a new disk on, or to edit the current disk on because the datastore has reached a certain threshold. Could not find a suitable datastore in hub 'moref://aabb9ff2/ResourcePool#resgroup-27' cause(s): There is no usable datastore.Ĭannot use datastore for subject because the container reached RED threshold of available capacity. The operation failed because no suitable resource was found. This error comes from the pre-check that VCD does to ensure that you are using the correct environment and policies that allow you to edit or create a disk on a Virtual Machine. This fails and provides you with the following error in the UI, it actually doesn’t log any failed tasks, since the task has not been initiated yet. The situtation is as follows: You or your customers are trying to extent an existing disk or trying to add a fresh new disk to a Virtual Machine within VCD. I figured it might be usefull for everybody that is looking at this problem in their environment. Today I want to talk about an issue we’ve encountered within our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environment before.

Vmware warning datastore usage on disk