vSphere Integrated Container plugin displays message "Could not find any VIC appliance VM"

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
The VIC plugin displays the following message in the HTML5 client, "Could not find any VIC appliance VM".

The logs in /var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log have messages similar to the following. 
[yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSSZ] [WARN ] http-bio-5090-exec-2com.vmware.vic.PropFetcher No VIC appliance

Cause

The VIC plugin does not handle the inventory when collecting properties from multiple vCenter in Enhanced Linked Mode.

Resolution

VMware is aware of this issue and working to resolve this in a future release.

Workaround:
Use the vic-machine-<OS> cli to deploy the VCH when using vCenter in Enhanced Linked Mode.
For details see Using the vic-machine CLI Utility

Additional Information

Could not find any VIC appliance VM" - VIC v1.3.0.533 on VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3.0 #341
Partially fix VIC appliance lookup failure in Enhanced Linked Mode #368