ZSphere initialization or host addition fails because virtualization is not enabled

Issue/Introduction

This article helps troubleshoot ZSphere initialization or host addition failures caused by virtualization not being enabled.

Symptoms

• Adding a host through the initialization wizard fails, or adding a host reports a virtualization-related error.
• Adding a host in a nested virtualization environment fails and requires CPU passthrough or nested virtualization to be enabled.

Environment

• Product: ZVF
• Version: 4.10.x
• Component: ZSphere
• Affected object: add host
• Scenario: For host and hardware issues, confirm the current version, deployment type, storage type, and operation timeline.

Possible causes

• Intel VT-x or VMX, AMD SVM, or VT-d or IOMMU is not enabled in the physical server BIOS.