Renaming SDDC manager appliance name after upgrading from 3.7.2 to 3.8

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

This document provided steps to restore SDDC manager appliance name as part of VCF 3.7.2 to 3.8.0 upgrade.

Symptoms:

• VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8.0 migration upgrade has succeeded.
• SDDC manager Appliance name on vcenter changes to 'sddc-manager'

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7.x
VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8.x

Resolution

1. Open a SSH session  to the SDDC Manager VM, and switch to the root user

su - 

2. Using the command below, get SDDC Manager id.

curl http://localhost/inventory/sddcmanagercontrollers | json_pp 

[
   {
      "id" : "71b43367-7df2-42a1-859b-e7faf8e1893a",
      "hostName" : "sddc-manager.rainpole.local",
      "managementIpAddress" : "172.19.20.5",
      "ceipStatus" : "DISABLED",
      "vmName" : "sddc-manager",
      "status" : "ACTIVE",
      "version" : "3.9.0.0-14610092",
      "privateIpAddress" : "172.19.20.5",
      "domainId" : "22c2d8e3-a2f5-469e-9ca6-f796736db9f0"
   }
]

3.  Copy json output to a file and and update vmName attribute as appropriate.

cat test.json

{"domainId":"22c2d8e3-a2f5-469e-9ca6-f796736db9f0","vmName":"sddc-manger-new-name","ceipStatus":"DISABLED","id":"71b43367-7df2-42a1-859b-e7faf8e1893a","status":"ACTIVE","version":"3.9.0.0-14610092","hostName":"sddc-manager.rainpole.local","privateIpAddress":"172.19.20.5","managementIpAddress":"172.19.20.5"}

4.  Execute the below API command to update entity.

curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type:application/json' -H 'Accept:application/json' -d @test.json http://localhost/inventory/sddcmanagercontrollers/<sddc-manager-id>

 

 

5. Verify that the vmName is now reflected with the updated entry.

curl http://localhost/inventory/sddcmanagercontrollers | json_pp