This article provides steps to identify the cause for VCF 9.0 deployment failure while populating SDDC manager inventory and credentials for ESX hosts. Task progress shows failed status with below error message ;
/var/log/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/domainmanager.log --- error is shown while configuring SDDC manager inventoryYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MIN DEBUG [vcf_dm,####,7f8f] [c.v.v.s.c.s.SecurityConfigurationServiceImpl,dm-exec-33] Security config retrieved {"fipsMode":true}YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MIN ERROR [vcf_dm,####,7f8f] [c.v.e.s.o.model.error.ErrorFactory,dm-exec-33] [token id] VCF_GUEST_SERVICE_INVALID_HTTP_STATUS_CODE Invalid HTTP status code {0}, while configuring SDDC Manager inventorycom.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.exceptions.OrchTaskException: Invalid HTTP status code {0}, while configuring SDDC Manager inventory at com.vmware.evo.sddc.sddcmanager.PostInventoryAndCredentialsAction.execute(PostInventoryAndCredentialsAction.java:124) at com.vmware.evo.sddc.sddcmanager.PostInventoryAndCredentialsAction.execute(PostInventoryAndCredentialsAction.java:47) at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.platform.action.FsmActionState.invoke(FsmActionState.java:66) at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.platform.action.FsmActionPlugin.invoke(FsmActionPlugin.java:161) at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.platform.action.FsmActionPlugin.invoke(FsmActionPlugin.java:147) at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.core.ProcessingTaskSubscriber.invokeMethod(ProcessingTaskSubscriber.java:403) at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.core.ProcessingTaskSubscriber.processTask(ProcessingTaskSubscriber.java:517) at com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.core.ProcessingTaskSubscriber.accept(ProcessingTaskSubscriber.java:128) at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor694.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:569) at com.google.common.eventbus.Subscriber.invokeSubscriberMethod(Subscriber.java:85) at com.google.common.eventbus.Subscriber.lambda$dispatchEvent$0(Subscriber.java:71) at com.vmware.vcf.common.tracing.TraceRunnable.run(TraceRunnable.java:63) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)Caused by: org.springframework.web.client.HttpServerErrorException$InternalServerError: 500 : "{"errorCode":"INVENTORY_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR","arguments":[],"message":"Inventory Internal Server Error","referenceToken":"token id"}" at org.springframework.web.client.HttpServerErrorException.create(HttpServerErrorException.java:102) at org.springframework.web.client.DefaultResponseErrorHandler.handleError(DefaultResponseErrorHandler.java:186) at org.springframework.web.client.DefaultResponseErrorHandler.handleError(DefaultResponseErrorHandler.java:137) at org.springframework.web.client.ResponseErrorHandler.handleError(ResponseErrorHandler.java:63) at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.handleResponse(RestTemplate.java:942) at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:891) at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:790) at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.exchange(RestTemplate.java:672) at com.vmware.evo.sddc.sddcmanager.PostInventoryAndCredentialsAction.execute(PostInventoryAndCredentialsAction.java:73) ... 16 common frames omittedYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MIN DEBUG [vcf_dm,68adb6e284fe607a81f6a6c78316dba8,7f8f] [c.v.e.s.o.c.ProcessingTaskSubscriber,dm-exec-33] Collected the following errors for task with name PostInventoryAndCredentialsAction and ID ####-####: [ExecutionError [errorCode=null, errorResponse=LocalizableErrorResponse(messageBundle=com.vmware.evo.sddc.sddcmanager.messages)]]
/var/log/vmware/vcf/commonsvcs/vcf-commonsvcs.log list the ESX FQDN as already existYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MIN_SEC INFO [common,####,554d] [c.v.e.s.i.s.EsxiInventoryServiceImpl,http-nio-127.0.0.1-7100-exec-2] Create Esxi - ####YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MIN ERROR [common,####,554d] [c.v.e.s.i.s.EsxiInventoryServiceImpl,http-nio-127.0.0.1-7100-exec-2] ESXi <ESX FQDN> already exist: ##### <ESX FQDN> already existsYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MIN ERROR [common,####,554d] [c.v.e.s.i.s.e.DomainExtensionsImpl,http-nio-127.0.0.1-7100-exec-2] Failed to post limited domain inventory com.vmware.evo.sddc.inventory.model.InventoryAlreadyExistsException: ####-####-#### <ESX FQDN> already exists
VCF 9.0
VVF 9.0
This is a known issue and shall be fixed in upcoming VCF release.
Workaround steps:
Remove stale entries of host from database. Take a backup of VCF Installer/SDDC before proceeding with below mentioned steps.
psql -h localhost -U postgres -d platform platform=# select hostname from host where status!='ACTIVE'; --- shows the list of hosts that aren't in active state.
hostname------------ esx01.fqdn esx02.fqdn(2 rows)
platform=# delete from host where hostname='esx fqdn from output';DELETE 1
You will read successfully completion of VVF deployment in /var/log/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/domainmanager.log
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MIN_SEC DEBUG [vcf_dm,####,ba32] [c.v.e.s.c.s.v.impl.VcfOpsServiceImpl,dm-exec-24] Received VCF Operations deployment cluster info: {"online_state":"GOING_ONLINE","initialization_state":"INITIALIZING","installation_state":"CONFIGURED"}YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MIN_SEC DEBUG [vcf_dm,68af37bf5ac4cf5acd9a550dd293f036,ba32] [c.v.e.sddc.vrealize.util.PollingUtil,dm-exec-24] Polling status: {"online_state":"GOING_ONLINE","initialization_state":"INITIALIZING","installation_state":"CONFIGURED"}