Manual update ESXi build number in vCF/SDDC manager

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
Hosts udpated manually, and VCF has not registered them as updated, as well as listing one host as in a failed status when it is not.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation

Resolution

see workaround.

Workaround:

(1) fetch the id and hostname from the inventory. the following command will get that information.

 curl localhost/inventory/hosts|jq -r '.[]|{id,hostName}'

 

(2) update the VCF inventory with the new version that was upgraded out of band. The <VMware ESX HOST ID> is the id corresponding to the hostname in step 1 response.

 curl -X PATCH '<SDDC_Manager_FQDN >/inventory/entities/<VMware ESX HOST ID>' -d '{"version":"7.0.2-18426014", "type":"ESXI"}' -H 'Content-Type:application/json'

 

we need to create a new key and add it the known_hosts file. Commands would be as below:

ssh-keyscan -t ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 -p 22 <ESXHOST_FQDN> 2>/dev/null >> /etc/vmware/vcf/commonsvcs/known_hosts

 

ssh-keyscan -t ssh-ed25519 -p 22 <ESXHOST_FQDN> 2>/dev/null >> /etc/vmware/vcf/commonsvcs/known_hosts

 

Replace the ESXHOST_FQDN with the actual FQDN of the host.