LCMVSPHERECONFIG1000016 VCF Installer fails to deploy OVA "Join the existing operations appliance",

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

A similar error is found in the Fleet Manager vrlcm.log

/var/log/vrlcm/vmware_vrlcm.log

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.783Z ERROR vrlcm[1299] [pool-3-thread-22] [c.v.v.l.p.c.v.t.DeployOvfTask]  -- IO Exception occured while uploading files to vCenters datastore. Error : {}
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out (Connection timed out)
        at java.base/java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) ~[?:?]
        at java.base/java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
        at java.base/java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
        at java.base/java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
        at java.base/java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
        at java.base/java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]

A similar error is found in the VCF Ops UI:

Request scale out failed with error cause [{"messageId":"LCMVSPHERECONFIG1000016","message":"IO Exception occurred while performing the operation. Check the logs for more information.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

Cause

Port 443 is blocked between VCF Fleet Manager and the destination ESXi hosts

and/or

There is no routing between VCF Fleet Manager and the destination ESXi hosts

Resolution

Work with networking team to open the required traffic between VCF Fleet Manager and the destination ESXi host.