vROPS API password expiry check fails when name of VRealize virtual machines and FQDN name is different

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

• This article is only applicable if above error is seen during precheck and if vROPS virtual machine names does not match with fully qualified domain name
• This is not fixed in VCF 3.x deployments. As of VCF 3.11, following workaround exist for this

Symptoms:

• On VCF 3.11 environment, precheck on management domain could fail due to following reason:
• Error Description: Exception occurred while performing API password validation task for vROPS load balancer node of xxx.xxx.xxx

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 3.0.x

Resolution

• If this occurs in any environment then resolution would be to make the virtual machine name match with the fully qualified domain name.
• To rename a virtual machine, you can follow the below link 

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