Troubleshoot error message “Configuration issues related to the virtual machine [VM_Name] prevent deployment and must be resolved before deployment can continue” in SCVMM 2012 R2

by Cengiz Kuskaya 19/10/2014

written by Cengiz Kuskaya

Problem Description

Live Migration or Virtual Machine (VM) creation can fail in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 with the following error message ;

Configuration issues related to the virtual machine [VM_Name] prevent deployment and must be resolved before deployment can continue.

Solution

This problem mostly occurs if the cluster is overcommitted. If the cluster is overcommitted it will block the migration and creation of the VM’s even if the source and target node has enough space and RAM.

To resolve the problem basically set the cluster reserve to 0 in VMM Console cluster properties. If this setting doesn’t solve your problem, check the functionality of the Live Migration in VMM with the follwing powershell command. The powershell command can give you additional error messages which can help you to figure out the cause of the problem.

$VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine -Name "HAVM05" | where {$_.VMHost.Name -eq "VMHVHostNode05A.Contoso.com"}
$VMHost = Get-SCVMHost | where {$_.Name -eq "VMHVHostNode05B.Contoso.com"}
Move-SCVirtualMachine -VM $VM -VMHost $VMHost -Path "D:\VMs\"

Good luck !