The network drop-down list is empty in the failover Recovery Settings tab in Cloud Director Availability 4.x

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• When performing a test failover or failover, networks are missing from the drop down menu when selecting the Connect all VMs to network option in the Recovery Settings tab.
• This issue occurs when you are using Data Center Groups in Cloud Director.

Environment

VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.x

Cause

This issue occurs because Cloud Director Availability is unable retrieve Data Center Group networks in Cloud Director. This is because the Data Center Group networks can only be queried using OpenAPI network APIs which are currently not supported by Cloud Director Availability.

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting Cloud Director Availability 4.x.
Currently, there is no resolution.

Workaround:
To work around this issue, use Organization VDC Networks that are not stretched across Data Center Groups as recovery networks in Cloud Director Availability.