[VMC on AWS] Upgrading the Service mesh appliances (IX and NE) fails with "The object 'vim.Datastore:datastore-xxx' has already been deleted or has not been completely created"

Products

• VMware Cloud on AWS

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
When upgrading the Service mesh appliances (IX and NE) you receive the following error:

UpgradeAppliance Failed. Reason: Interconnect Service Workflow InterconnectRedeploy failed.

Error: ["Interconnect Service Workflow ApplianceLifecycleJob failed. Error: [\" Deploy and Configuration of Interconnect Appliances Failed. Interconnect Service Workflow DeployAppliance failed. Error: [\\\"The object 'vim.Datastore:datastore-xxx' has already been deleted or has not been completely created\\\"]\"]"] 

Where datastore- xxx indicates a datastore used as part of the compute profile.

Resolution

To resolve this issue edit the Compute Profile as follows.Select the Deployment Resource Pools:

• Click the Select Resource drop-down menu.
• Select each cluster or resource pool to be used when deploying HCX Interconnect appliances.
• Click the Select Datastore drop-down menu.
• Select the datastore to be used when deploying HCX Interconnect appliances
• If the correct datastores are indicated, de-select and re-select them again.
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Next Step - Go to Interconnect > Multi-Site Service Mesh > Service Mesh.

• Click RESYNC.

Verify that the changes appear in the Compute Profile though the HCX Interconnect interface UI

Attempt the upgrade of the Service mesh appliances again.