VCF Offline Depot – Downloading All Async PATCH Bundles in One Batch

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager
• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

When attempting to download all asynchronous (async) patch bundles for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) into an offline depot, the lcm-bundle-transfer-util --download command only fetches selected patch bundles rather than the complete set.

Administrators may want to host a complete copy of the VCF offline depot on their local server so that SDDC Manager can access all available async patches as needed.

Cause

The --download command is not designed to download all async patch bundles at once.
Full async patch bundle download is only supported in offline depot mode, which requires initializing the offline depot using the correct parameters.

Resolution

To download all async patch bundles for an offline depot, run the lcm-bundle-transfer-util command in offline depot mode with the --setUpOfflineDepot and --asyncPatches parameters.

Sample

sh lcm-bundle-transfer-util --setUpOfflineDepot  --offlineDepotRootDir /var/www/offline_depot/bb########9b/PROD/COMP/SDDC_MANAGER_VCF --offlineDepotUrl https://10.10.10.10:8282 -ddtf ~/Downloads/token.txt -sv 5.2.1.0 --asyncPatches

 

Additional Information

Reference documents

Offline Download of Async Patch Bundles

Set Up an Offline Depot Web Server for VMware Cloud Foundation