During conversion of vSphere environment to VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX for Management Domain fails to deploy with error "manifest file can not read by LCM due to insufficient permissions"

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

When converting vSphere environment to SDDC, the operation may fail to deploy NSX and below error may be seen in command line: 

[ERROR] request_helper: Result status code from bundle initiate upload: ('errorCode': 'VCF_ERROR_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR', 'arguments': [], 'message': 'A problem has occurred on the server. Please retry or contact the service provider and provide the reference token.' , 'causes': [('type': 'com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.model.error.LCMException')], 'referenceToken': 'AAA000') : 500

 

Looking at the /var/log/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm.log log we may see errors similar to below: 

 

2025-04-09T12:05:47.160+0000 ERROR [vcf_lcm,000000000000000000,0000] [c.v.e.s.l.s.i.BundleUploadServiceImpl,http-nio-127.0.0.1-7400-exec-8] /nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount/bundle/bundle-111111.manifest file can not read by LCM due to insufficient permissions. vcf_lcm user must have read and write access to /nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount/bundle directory or upload bundle files from any directory where vcf_lcm user have read and write access.

2025-04-09T12:05:47.162+0000 ERROR [vcf_lcm,00000000000000000,0000] [c.v.v.l.r.a.c.v.b.BundleController,http-nio-127.0.0.1-7400-exec-8] Bundle Upload Failed
com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.model.error.LcmException: /nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount/bundle/bundle-111111.manifest file can not read by LCM due to insufficient permissions. vcf_lcm user must have read and write access to /nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount/bundle directory or upload bundle files from any directory where vcf_lcm user have read and write access.

 

 

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x

Cause

Insufficient permissions for vcf_lcm user to allow for deployment to initiate for bundle provided

Resolution

Please provide permissions for vcf_lcm user for the bundle directory by running below when logged into SDDC VM through SSH and elevating to root with su -: 

 

chown -R vcf_lcm:vcf /nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount/bundle/
chmod -R 0777 /nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount/bundle/

 

Retry the NSX deployment now, for steps on this please see following: Convert or Import the vSphere Environment into the SDDC Manager Inventory