No Updates available | Unable to see bundlesAvailable for Updates

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

• The upgrade bundle is successfully displayed under LCM Management > Bundle Management, and the system shows that the upgrade is available for the upgrade from 4.x to 5.x.

• However, when navigating to Domains > Upgrade/Patches > Available Upgrades, the option to select an upgrade plan is not available.

• Attempting to proceed results in the error: No updates available

• On checking the file /home/vcf/feature.properties, it was found to be either missing or incomplete. Specifically, the following entries are not present:
  
  feature.lcm.store.target.version=true
feature.vcf.isolated.wlds=true
  
  
• The feature.properties file is missing from the /home/vcf/ directory.
  From the logs (/var/log/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/domainmanager.log), we observe the following error message:
  
  INFO [vcf_dm,0000000000000000,0000] [o.s.c.a.ConfigurationClassParser,main] Properties location [file:/home/vcf/feature.properties] not resolvable: /home/vcf/feature.properties (No such file or directory)

 

Environment

• VCF 4.x
• VCF 5.x

Cause

This issue is caused either by the lines missing from /home/vcf/feature.properties or by the complete absence of the feature.properties file:

feature.lcm.store.target.version=true
feature.vcf.isolated.wlds=true

Resolution

Remediation Steps for Missing or Incomplete feature.properties File

Case 1: File Exists but Entries Are Missing

1. Take a snapshot of the SDDC Manager.

2. SSH to the SDDC Manager using the vcf account and switch to root.

3. Edit the file /home/vcf/feature.properties and add the following lines:
   
   feature.lcm.store.target.version=true
feature.vcf.isolated.wlds=true

   Command to add the lines to the file

   echo -e "feature.lcm.store.target.version=true\nfeature.vcf.isolated.wlds=true" | sudo tee -a /home/vcf/feature.properties


4. Save the file and exit the editor.

5. Restart all SDDC Manager services:

   /opt/vmware/vcf/operationsmanager/scripts/cli/sddcmanager_restart_services.sh

6. Log in to the SDDC Manager UI and verify that the Updates interface has changed.

Case 2: File Is Completely Missing

1. Take a snapshot of the SDDC Manager.

2. SSH to the SDDC Manager using the vcf account and switch to root.

3. Create a new file /home/vcf/feature.properties.

4. Set ownership and permissions: 
   chown vcf:vcf /home/vcf/feature.properties
chmod 750 /home/vcf/feature.properties

5. Edit the file and add the following lines:
   
   feature.lcm.store.target.version=true
feature.vcf.isolated.wlds=true

   Command to add the lines to the file

   echo -e "feature.lcm.store.target.version=true\nfeature.vcf.isolated.wlds=true" | sudo tee -a /home/vcf/feature.properties

6. Save and exit the editor.

7. Restart all SDDC Manager services:

   /opt/vmware/vcf/operationsmanager/scripts/cli/sddcmanager_restart_services.sh

8. Log in to the SDDC Manager UI and verify that the Updates interface has changed.