Stop SDDC Manager from deleting a failed appliance deployment for troubleshooting purposes.

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

SDDC Manager deletes deployed virtual machines if the workflow fails. This makes it difficult to troubleshoot the deployment issue/collect logs. 

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation

Resolution

1. Edit or create file
   
   vi /etc/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/application-prod.properties
   
   
2. Add the following line to the file.
   
   orchestrator.task.stopOnFirstFailure=true
   
   
3. Save the changes and exit
   
   :x
   
   
4. Cycle the domainmanager service
   
   systemctl restart domainmanager
   
   
5. Retry the vCenter deployment.
   
   
6. Troubleshoot the vCenter deployment issue/collect vCenter logs.
   
   
7. Remove the flag from the application-prod.properties.

vi /etc/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/application-prod.properties
orchestrator.task.stopOnFirstFailure=true
   
   
8. Cycle the domainamanger service
   
   systemctl restart domainmanager
   
   
9. Run the vCenter upgrade workflow again.
   
   
10. Once the required logs/troubleshooting steps have been performed make sure to remove the line from the application-prod.properties file.