Error: Toggle VCF Environment is not supported for non-VCF user

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Adding 'Aria Suite of Products' to SDDC Manager from Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager fails with the Error: Toggle VCF Environment is not supported for non-VCF user.
The /var/log/vrlcm/vmware_vrlcm.log shows below event:

INFO vrlcm[1551] [http-nio-8080-exec-7] [c.v.v.l.d.i.u.InventorySchemaQueryUtil] – GETTING ROOT NODE FOR :: ProductPolicy
ERROR vrlcm[1551] [http-nio-8080-exec-10] [c.v.v.l.l.c.EnvironmentController] – Toggle VCF Environment is not supported.
com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.lcops.common.exception.ToggleVcfEnvironmentNotSupportedException: Toggle VCF Environment is not supported for non-VCF user.
at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.lcops.controller.EnvironmentController.toggleVcfEnvironment(EnvironmentController.java:1917) [vmlcm-lcopsservice-core-8.18.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:?]

Environment

Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18.1 Patch-2
SDDC Manager 5.X

Resolution

This behaviour is by design as VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18.0 Patch 2 provides:

• An upgrade path for customers who want to upgrade their VMware Aria infrastructure to VCF 9.0.
• Applying this patch enables

• • Installation of VCF Operations fleet management appliance 9.0.
  • VCF Operations fleet management appliance provides lifecycle management and Day-N operations capabilities in VCF 9.0 for management components like VCF Automation, VCF Operations, VCF Operations for Networks , VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Identity Broker.

• • Enables upgrade for VMware Aria Operations 8.18 to VCF Operations 9.0, including VCF Operations fleet management 9.0 installation when VMware Cloud Foundation entitlement is selected.
• Decouples VCF aware mode based deployments with SDDC Manager.

Reference Link: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-suite-lifecycle/8-18/release-notes/vmware-aria-suite-lifecycle-818-patch-2-release-notes.html