VMware Cloud Foundation: Removing contents of /etc/exports in upgraded environments

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

In VMware Cloud Foundation version 4.5.1, after removing NFS storage the contents of the /etc/exports file are not deleted. This leads to stale entries.

root@sddc-manager [ ~ ]# cat /etc/exports
/nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount 10.0.0.100(ro,sync,no_subtree_check)
/nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount 10.0.0.101(ro,sync,no_subtree_check)
/nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount 10.0.0.102(ro,sync,no_subtree_check)
/nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount 10.0.0.103(ro,sync,no_subtree_check)
/nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount 10.0.0.104(ro,sync,no_subtree_check)
/nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount 10.0.0.105(ro,sync,no_subtree_check)
/nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount 10.0.0.106(ro,sync,no_subtree_check

Environment

Vmware Cloud Foundation 4.5.1
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0

Cause

In updated Brownfield Environments the NFS related files (/etc/exports) are not deleted.

Resolution

To resolve the issue, please remove the /etc/exports file form the SDDC Manager.
sudo rm /etc/exports