Removing Cloud Cells in VMware Cloud Director fails with the error Failover recovery has not yet completed for cell

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• When attempting to remove a cell from VMware Cloud Director an error similar to the following is encountered:
  
  Error: Failover recovery has not yet completed for cell vcd_1.mydomain.local (urn:vcloud:cell:...).

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.5.x

Cause

There is an outstanding task on the cell that did not complete successfully, which prevents the cell from being removed.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, contact Broadcom Support and note this Article ID (375488) in the problem description. For more information, see Creating and managing Broadcom support cases.