Adding multiple nodes to an existing cluster in parallel hangs at "Waiting to finish cluster expansion. Starting the cluster for initial installation" in vRealize Operations Manager

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Two or more nodes are added to an existing vRealize Operations Manager cluster in parallel.
• The status of the cluster does not change from:
  
  Waiting to finish cluster expansion. Starting the cluster for initial installation
   
• Rebooting the nodes or restarting the services has no effect.

Environment

VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.x
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.1.x
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.3.x
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.x
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5.x
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.5.x
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.0.x
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.2.x
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.7.x
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.4.x

Cause

Adding multiple nodes to an existing vRealize Operations Manager cluster in parallel is not supported. Cluster expansion must be completed one node at a time.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, you must manually remove the recently added nodes. For more information, see Manually removing a node from the VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x cluster (2114077).

Additional Information

Manually removing a node from the VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x cluster