You can monitor all virtual machine (VM) provisioning operations in your environment using the Workload Provisioning card in the Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation dashboard.

As an administrator, you want to determine:
  • What VM operations are running in the environment?
  • What is the status of these VM operations. Did they succeed or fail?
  • What are the reasons for failure in cases where the workload operations fail?

The Workload Provisioning page lists the total request and failure trend over seven days which enables you to view all VM provisioning operations in your environment, view the VM provisioning status as success or failure, and view the failure reason for each VM provisioing operation. This page reports only the following operations: importing a vApp, creating a VM, cloning to create a new VM, and changing a template into a VM.

Troubleshooting Workload Provisioning Issues

To investigate VM provisional operation failures, you can use the trend chart at the top of the page and the filters to gain an understanding of which users are triggering the failures and in which VM, clusters, and vCenter instances. Then, follow the troubleshooting flow provided in What is Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation.

You can also refer to this Knowledge Base article to troubleshoot some common workload provisioning issues.