Guest cluster upgrade stuck - VM is being deployed and deleted in a loop

Products

• VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

Issue/Introduction

Guest cluster upgrade has become stuck

New VM is being deployed and deleted in a continuous loop

The following error message is present in the namespace events

deploy error: Transfer failed: Error during transfer of ds:///vmfs/volumes/########-########-####-############//contentlib-########-####-####-####-############/########-####-####-####-############/photon-ova-disk1_bb72ea18-eaf0-4c2c-8db5-4509bee7f72a.vmdk?serverId=########-####-####-####-############: Failed to resolve source datastore file URI(ds:///vmfs/volumes/########-########-####-############//contentlib-########-####-####-####-############/########-####-####-####-############/photon-ova-disk1_bb72ea18-eaf0-4c2c-8db5-4509bee7f72a.vmdk?serverId=########-####-####-####-############)

Environment

vSphere 8.x

Cause

The ovf was not properly imported into the content library

Resolution

The ovf was not properly imported into the subscribed content library previously. We need to remove the current ovf and allow the content library to sync properly.

• Delete the ovf from the content library and sync the content library