Perform a Configuration Drift Sync Between vCenter Server and SDDC Manager in VCF 9.x

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

SDDC Manager may report Configuration Drift Detected for a workload domain when the inventory in vCenter Server does not match the inventory stored in SDDC Manager. 

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x

Cause

Configuration drift occurs when supported changes are performed directly in vCenter Server without SDDC Manager being immediately synchronized. SDDC Manager flags these differences as drift because its internal state no longer matches vCenter’s authoritative configuration.

Examples of supported OOB changes that trigger drift detection include:

• Renaming ESXi hosts, clusters, networks, and datastores
• Changing hostnames or IP addresses
• Modifying ESXi host resources (CPU, memory, NICs, disks)
• Adjusting pNIC uplink assignments
• Renaming the vSphere Datacenter
• Adding or removing disks on an ESXi host

Resolution

Perform a Configuration Drift Sync from the SDDC Manager UI

1. Log in to the SDDC Manager UI:
   • https://<sddc-manager-fqdn>
2. In the left navigation pane, select Inventory.
3. Identify the domain.
4. Click the workload domain.
5. Click Actions (top right).
6. Click Sync Inventory

 

 

Additional Information

Manage VCF Domain Configuration Drift