Following an upgrade of VCF from 4.5.2 to 5.2.0, receive a precheck error on SDDC UI relating to the upgrade policy configured for ESX hosts
Article ID: 379601
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Products
VMware SDDC Manager
Issue/Introduction
When running a precheck on the SDDC, following an upgrade from VCF 4.5.2 to 5.2.0, generates a warning related to the upgrade policy configured for ESX hosts
On the SDDC UI - this precheck warning is presented -
- Description - Checks if upgrade policy configured for cluster cluster_name (where cluster_name is the specific name of the cluster in the environment) on vCenter match default SDDC Manager ESXi upgrade policy
- Error Description - Failure Action Name upgrade policy configured for cluster cluster_name on vCenter does not match default SDDC Manager ESXi upgrade policy. It has value Retry in vCenter, and default value FailTask in SDDC Manager
- Impact - Medium: May perform upgrade without addressing this issue
- Remediation - Review and apply the desired upgrade policy options from the "Upgrade Options" page during "ESX Configure Update"
Environment
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.0
Cause
This warning is flagging discrepancies in configuration between SDDC and vCenter for the ESX host upgrade policy
Resolution
Refer to this document - it provides details on how the configuration can be remediated (by comparing what is expected with what is configured).
How to Configure the vSphere Lifecycle Manager Remediation Settings
For reference, this document captures the default ESX upgrade policy in SDDC Manager
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