[Internal] A VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade might fail while putting an ESXi host into maintenance mode

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• While performing a VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade, the upgrade process might fail while waiting to put an ESXi host into maintenance mode.
• There are either a large number of virtual machines being migrated or a large amount of vSAN data being moved as a result of the maintenance mode operation.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 2.x

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting VMware Cloud Foundation. There is currently no resolution.


To workaround the issue, the timeout period for the maintenance mode operation can be increased.

1. Log in to the VRM virtual machine as the root user.
2. Make a copy of the /home/vrack/lcm/lcm-app/conf/application-prod.properties file:
   
   cp /home/vrack/lcm/lcm-app/conf/application-prod.properties /tmp/
    
3. Open the /home/vrack/lcm/lcm-app/conf/application-prod.properties file with a text editor:
   
   vi /home/vrack/lcm/lcm-app/conf/application-prod.properties
    
4. Find the line that reads:
   
   lcm.upgrade.esx.maxallowed.increase.endTime=14400000
   
   and change 14400000 to a higher value.
   
   Note: 14400000 corresponds to four hours.
    
5. Save and close the file.
6. Restart the lcm-init service:
   
   service lcm-init restart

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