VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade 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 fails 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.

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting VMware Cloud Foundation. Currently, there is no resolution.

 

Workaround:

To work around the issue, increase the timeout period for the maintenance mode operation.

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 using 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 replace 14400000 with 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