Quick post just to demonstrate how to get rid of a bundle stuck in download failed state, which happened to me on a VCF 4.2 setup. The error message was “Unable to download LCM bundle” in my case it was 4.3.0.0 Find the bundle ID by clicking on View Details. Here’s an example: psql -h […]
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SDDC Manager 3.9.x Postgres DB
The following steps are applicable to VMware Cloud Foundation 3.x and not 4.x and I’m also assuming you are familiar with databases and CLI file editing on Linux. SDDC Manager 3.x uses PostgreSQL to store all information related to the SDDC deployment. SSH to SDDC Manager as vcf user and switch to root. PostgreSQL by […]
Read More →VCF 4.0.1 to 4.0.1.1 LCM Update
This is going to be very similar but shorter version of my previous 4.0 to 4.0.1 online VCF LCM update. The updated components for 4.0.1.1 are just SDDC Manager and vCenter Server as per following screenshot from the official release notes SDDC Manager 4.0.1.1 (bundle ID 06970cd8-def6-4337-a99c-a3917f5db976) from version 4.0.1.0 build 16428904 to 4.0.1.1 build […]
Read More →Incremental VCF 4.0 to 4.0.1 LCM Updates
In this article I’m going to demonstrate the steps required to perform an incremental online LCM update from VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 to 4.0.1, specifically on the management workload domain. VCF 4.0.1 released 25/06/2020 and this is release notes link Note that I used the word incremental to identify that LCM is going to apply […]
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