Recover from BOSH Instance in "stopped" or "detached" State.

Products

• VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition

Issue/Introduction

A failure occurs during a bosh upgrade or deployment leaving on or more instances in a "stopped" or "detached" state, preventing further attempts for a successful deployment.

 

$ bosh is --details

Instance               Process State  AZ   IPs                  Deployment         State        VM CID VM Type         Disk CIDs  Agent ID    Index  Bootstrap Ignore  
<instance 1>           -              az2  172.51.129.4         <deployment 1>     stopped      <vm 1>    medium.disk  <disk 1>   <agent 1>   1      false     false  
<instance 2>           -              az1  172.51.129.3         <deployment 1>     detached     <vm 2>    medium.disk  <disk 2>   <agent 2>   0      true      false 

Environment

• Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition
• BOSH

Resolution

Please contact Broadcom support for assistance in resolving this condition.

Additional Information

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• TAS VM missing and cannot be updated due to detatched state.