During VCF Ops Licensing, Unable to assign license to vCenter account which is part of VCF cloud account.

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

• After successfully configuring the VCF cloud account in the VCF Operations 9.0, the error below appears when trying to enable "License and vSphere Client Plugin' under "Manage Integration":
  

  The management domain vCenter credentials provided by SDDC Manager must have the Global licenses privilege assigned and be a member of the LicenseServiceAdministrators Single Sign-On group. Configure them and try again. 

  
  
  
  
• When trying to activate management for the VCF cloud account , Below warning message is displayed
  

  You can activate management only of VCF cloud accounts of version 9 or later, which are not currently managed by this VCF Operations instance. The selected VCF cloud accounts are not eligible for activating management

  
  

• In the VCF Operations UI, in the 'Build' -> 'Lifecycle' menu, the VCF Management and VCF Instances may display the following error;
  
  

  Service or view is not available for the selected object

  
  

Environment

VCF Operations 9.0
VCF Operations 9.1

Cause

The credentials provided by SDDC manager for vCenter don't have licensing privileges.

Resolution

1. In VCF Operations->Administration->Integrations page expand VMware Cloud Foundation > Click on VCF instance name.
2. Activate System managed credentials. This will create service accounts from underlying vCenter and NSX accounts with required privileges.
   
3. Then click on the 'Manage Integration' button on bottom of same screen. You should now be able to enable 'License and vSphere client plugin' and save
4. Then go to Integrations page, select SDDC manager checkbox and click on 'Activate Management'.
5. You can then go to the licensing section within VCF Operations and configure as required.