Cannot upgrade to VCF version 5.2.1.0 or later because bundles are missing for domain error in SDDC Manager

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

When clicking on the 'Updates' tab on a workload domain in SDDC manager you may see the following warning as below: 

Cannot upgrade to VCF version 5.2.1.0 because bundles <bundle_id> are missing from domain<workload domain>. Please upload bundles <bundle_id>. 

 

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.x

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x

Resolution

• When updating from SDDC Manager 5.2.x to 5.2.1.1,5.2.1.2,5.2.2 or 9.x  it is essential to ensure that version 5.2.1.0 bundles are also downloaded.
  
  Refer: SDDC Manager requires the download of 5.2.1.0 bundles while updating from 5.2.0.1 to 5.2.1.1
  
  
• Check the Bundle Management page to verify all required bundles are available.
  
  
• If the environment is offline and the bundle is not listed for download, use the Offline Bundle Transfer Utility (OBTU) to manually upload the required bundles.

Additional Information

Workaround If the required bundles cannot be found from the Bundle Management page use the API Explorer:

1. Log in to the SDDC Manager UI
   
   
2. Navigate to the PATCH /v1/bundle/{id} in the  API explorer.
   
   Developer Center > API explorer > Bundles > PATCH


3. Paste the bundle id into the ID parameter.
   
   bundle-<id> ex: bundle-227586
   
   
4. Paste the following payload into the body section:
   
   {
    "bundleDownloadSpec": {
        "downloadNow": true
    }
}
   
   
5. Hit the EXECUTE button. 

Note:

To retrieve the correct bundle id refer to the following articles:

VMware Cloud Foundation - Upgrade Bundle Details

Applying individual product updates to VMware Cloud Foundation

or you can check directly the ProductVersionCatalog JSON file on the SDDC manager from command line:

cat /nfs/vmware/vcf/nfs-mount/bundle/depot/local/productVersionCatalog.json | json_pp | less

Additional documentation:

How to download VCF Bundles using API

Unable to download the NSX-T or vCenter Install bundles from the SDDC Manager UI.