During the process of adding hosts to the cluster, an error message is displayed stating that there is no shared datastore available.

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

SDDC Manager errors when trying to add a host(s) where a decommissioned datastore is not present in the host(s) that are being added:

Environment

SDDC Manager 5.x

Cause

If you make changes to your VMware Cloud Foundation configuration using the vSphere client, you can cause the vCenter and SDDC Manager to become out-of-sync.   If the SDDC Manager and vCenter Server inventories get out of sync, some SDDC Manager workflows may be blocked. You can use this procedure to unblock these tasks.

Resolution

You must have the latest version of the VCF Import Tool on the SDDC Manager appliance.
You can run the sync workflow on vSphere environments that you imported/converted to SDDC Manager workload domains, as well as on workload domains deployed from SDDC Manager.
The sync workflow requires you to specify a workload domain to sync. If you need to sync multiple workload domains, you will have to run the sync workflow multiple times.

If the VCF Import Tool is already deployed on the SDDC Manager appliance, skip to step 3. Otherwise, download it now.

1. Log in to the Broadcom Support Portal and browse to My Downloads VMware Cloud Foundation .
   1. Click the latest version 
   2. Click Drivers & Tools.
   3. Click the download icon for the VCF Import Tool.
   4. Copy vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz to the SDDC Manager appliance.
2. Copy vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz to the SDDC Manager appliance and extract the archive.
   1. SSH in to the SDDC Manager appliance using the vcf user account.
   2. Create the vcfimport directory.
   3. mkdir /home/vcf/vcfimport
   4. Copy vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz to the /home/vcf/vcfimport directory.
   5. Extract the contents of vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz.
      1. tar -xvf vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz
3. Run the vcf_brownfield.py script with the sync parameter.
   1. SSH in to the SDDC Manager appliance using the vcf user account.
   2. Navigate to the location of the vcf_brownfield.py script and run the following command:
   3. python3 vcf_brownfield.py sync --domain-name <selected-domain-name>
      1. Replace <selected-domain-name> with the name of the workload domain you want to sync

Additional Information

Manage workload domain configuration drift between vCenter Server and SDDC Manager