Skip level upgrades disabled for product components after VCF upgraded to 4.4.0.0 in offline mode

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

Bundles of previous versions for product components (NSX-T / VC/ ESXi) show up as available for upgrade.
 

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3.1
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1

Cause

Issue occurs because the allowed.base.versions.for.aliasing property is not added to the lcm properties file.

Resolution

Add/update property (allowed.base.versions.for.aliasing) in application-prod.properties file (/opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/conf)

Workaround:
Step 1: Login to SDDC Manager VM via SSH and switch to root

Step 2: Create a backup copy of existing application-prod.properties file in LCM
             cp /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/conf/application-prod.properties /home/vcf/application-prod.properties.bak

Step 3: Add/Update the below property in /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/conf/application-prod.properties file
            allowed.base.versions.for.aliasing=7.0.1-17551050,7.0.1-17168206,7.0.1-16850804,
            7.0.2-17867351,7.0.2-  18426014,7.0.1.00000-16860138,7.0.1.00200-17327517,
            7.0.2.00400-18356314,7.0.1.00301-17956102,7.0.2.00500-18455184,
            3.1.3.0.0-18328989,3.0.2.0.0-16887200,3.1.0.0.0-17107167,3.1.2.0.0-17883596,
            3.1.3.1.0-18504668

Step 4: Restart LCM
            systemctl restart lcm