When enabling HA on a cluster using vSphere Lifecycle Manager Images, you encounter the following errors:
This issue occurs when the scratch partition is not properly configured to a disk and is instead located on the /tmp
RAMdisk. The /tmp
RAMdisk is subject to cleanup by tmpwatch
during periods of inactivity. Critical subfolders, such as vmware/lifecycle
and locker
, may be removed, leading to failure during the installation of HA components on the hosts.
Reboot the affected host. Sometimes a reboot can automatically recreate missing directories.
If that does not help, perform the following steps:
mkdir -p /var/vmware/lifecycle
echo "{}" > /var/vmware/lifecycle/task-status.json