ESXi Bundles Not Visible in Bundle Management UI of the SDDC manager

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

ESXi Bundles are not listed in the Bundle Management UI, this could cause difficulty to download the bundles. 

 

Environment

VCF 4.x & VCF 5.x 

Cause

This is a known issue and will be resolved on future releases.

Resolution

Below is the possible workaround: 

 

A. Customers can download the bundle through the API Explorer using the following API and payload:

1. Go to the Developer Center.
2. Open the API Explorer.
3. Filter for "v1/bundles".
4. Click "PATCH" and provide the bundle ID and bundle update specification(bundleUpdateSpec) with the payload as below 

{
"bundleDownloadSpec": {
"downloadNow": true
},
"compatibilitySetsFilePath": ""
}

 

 

B. To find the bundle ID:

1. You can fire the V1/bundles endpoint from the API explorer.
2. Go to the Developer Center.
3. Open the API Explorer.
4. Filter for “v1/bundles”.
5. Click “GET” and EXECUTE
6. From the result Look for the ESXi bundle with the right target version, which will be in a “pending” state.
7. Use the Id of that bundle object

 

 

C. Once the bundle downloaded it will be visible in Download History Page.