Supervisor upgrade failed at EnvProps component upgrade which complains the server doesn't have a resource type \"vspherezones\"\

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 8.0
• VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service
• vSphere with Tanzu

Issue/Introduction

Running the below command from the Supervisor Control plane VM returns the below error message with 'Component EnvPropsUpgrade failed'

/usr/lib/vmware-wcp/upgrade/upgrade-ctl.py get-status | jq
{
  "controller_id": "422#################29e4",
  "state": "error",
  "messages": [
    {
      "level": "error",
      "message": "Component EnvPropsUpgrade failed: Failed to run command: ['kubectl', 'get', 'vspherezones', '-o', 'json'] ret=1 out= err=error: the server doesn't have a resource type \"vspherezones\"\n"
    },
    {
      "level": "error",
      "message": "Component upgrade failed."
    }
  ]

Environment

vCenter Server 8.0 U3 and later

vSphere with Tanzu

Resolution

Issue is resolved in vCenter server 8.0U3g

Workaround: 

1. SSH into Supervisor CPVM  How to SSH into Supervisor Control Plane VMs

2. Manually reapply just vspherezones CRD from /usr/lib/vmware-wcp/objects/PodVM-GuestCluster/30-vmop/vmop.yaml on CPVM

awk 'BEGIN{RS="---"} /kind: CustomResourceDefinition/ && /name: vspherezones.topology.tanzu.vmware.com/' /usr/lib/vmware-wcp/objects/PodVM-GuestCluster/30-vmop/vmop.yaml | kubectl apply -f -

3. Restart upgrade from vCenter UI (Workload management → Updates → select Supervisor → Apply updates)