Veeam VMware: No Compatible Host for Secondary VM Alarm

Veeam.Virt.Extensions.VMware.VC5Alarm.VM.NoCompatibleHostForSecondaryVM (UnitMonitor)

No Compatible Host for Secondary VM Alarm

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This monitor tracks the vCenter alarm 'No compatible host for secondary VM'.

Causes

This alarm will fire in vCenter, using triggers defined via the vSphere Client.

By default, this alarm is triggered by the following event:

vCenter Event	Description
VmNoCompatibleHostForSecondaryEvent	No compatible host found for the Secondary VM {vm.name}.

Resolutions

Check status and configuration of hosts for compatibility issues to run a secondary failover for the specified VM.

Use the Alerts View to see all current open issues for this object. Use the Events View to review any error and warning events for this object. Open a Performance View to see the performance metrics for this object and all contained objects. Open a Diagram View to analyze the relationships of this object to other components.

External

See the Help Center for more information including reference lists of all Rules and Monitors and full set of User Guides for the Veeam MP for VMware.

See the VMware Online Documentation for more information on VMware vSphere, in particular:

Element properties:

Target

Veeam.Virt.Extensions.VMware.VMGUEST.FT

Parent Monitor

System.Health.AvailabilityState

Category

AvailabilityHealth

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

MatchMonitorHealth

Alert Priority

High

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Monitor Type

Microsoft.Windows.SingleEventLogTimer2StateMonitorType

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

Veeam VMware: No Compatible Host for Secondary VM Alarm

{0}

RunAs

Default

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Veeam.Virt.Extensions.VMware.VC5Alarm.VM.NoCompatibleHostForSecondaryVM" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="onEssentialMonitoring" Target="VeeamVEVMwareLib!Veeam.Virt.Extensions.VMware.VMGUEST.FT" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.AvailabilityState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.SingleEventLogTimer2StateMonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="true">

  <Category>AvailabilityHealth</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Veeam.Virt.Extensions.VMware.VC5Alarm.VM.NoCompatibleHostForSecondaryVM_AlertMessageResourceID">

    <AlertOnState>Warning</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>High</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Data/Context/Params/Param[11]$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState ID="EventRaised" MonitorTypeStateID="EventRaised" HealthState="Warning"/>

    <OperationalState ID="TimerEventRaised" MonitorTypeStateID="TimerEventRaised" HealthState="Success"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <ComputerName>.</ComputerName>

    <LogName>Veeam VMware</LogName>

    <Expression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Params/Param[1]</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">AlarmStatusChangedEvent</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Params/Param[11]</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>MatchesWildcard</Operator>

            <Pattern>Alarm*No compatible host for Secondary VM*</Pattern>

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Params/Param[8]</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">$Target/Property[Type="VeeamVEVMwareLib!Veeam.Virt.Extensions.VMware.VMGUEST"]/id$</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </Expression>

    <TimerWaitInSeconds>86400</TimerWaitInSeconds>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>