Deployment of vRSLCM is failing when NSX-T federation is enabled

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

To provide a workaround for the VCF customers that hit this issue.

Symptoms:

• The vRSLCM deployment workflow in SDDC Manager fails on step: Prepare NSX-T Standalone Tier-1 Router Configuration
• In the /var/log/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/domainmanager.log file, you see similar to:

OrchTaskException: Failed to find NSX-T Edge Cluster

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2.x

Resolution

This issue is fixed in VCF 4.3.x

Workaround:
To work around this issue, override the affected Edge cluster:

1. SSH to SDDC Manager appliance and switch to root user
2. Open /etc/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/application-prod.properties in a text editor.
3. Add this line override.edge.cluster.name=Edge-cluster-NAME
4. The Edge-cluster-NAME can be found in the NSX-T UI for the corresponding edge cluster for VCF management domain
5. Save the file and close the editor.
6. Restart the Domain Manager with: systemctl restart domainmanager
7. Wait 2 minutes for the service to restart.
8. Retry the "Deploy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager" operation from the SDDC Manager UI.