LCMPATCHDOWNLOAD16001, Failed to download VCF Operations Fleet Management patch.

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Binary download for VCFA 9.0.1 fails with error LCMPATCHDOWNLOAD16001:
Error Code: LCMPATCHDOWNLOAD16001, Failed to download VCF Operations Fleet Management patch. Please check logs for more detail.

When trying to delete the patch binary in order to retry the download, the task fails with error message "Patch ID is required field." 

Environment

VCF Operations 9.x
VCF Fleet Management 9.x

Cause

This issue typically occurs when the fleet management appliance is rebooted during the patch download because the /data partition does not have enough free space.

This leaves an inconsistent entry in the vrlcm database with a patchID value null for the downloaded patch.

we can confirm the issue from /var/log/vrlcm/vmware_vrlcm.log on the fleet manager appliance :

####-##-##T##:##:##.###Z INFO vrlcm[82455] [http-nio-8080-exec-4] [c.v.v.l.l.u.SettingsHelper] -- Final Data : [ {
 "productId" : "vra",
 "productVersion" : "9.0.1.0",
 "productBinaryType" : "Patch",
 "productBinaryPath" : null,
 "componentName" : null,
 "mappingType" : null,
 "productName" : "automation",
 "requestId" : null,
 "removeBinary" : null,
 "depotType" : null,
 "downloadStatus" : "DOWNLOADED",
 "patchId" : null, <--------------------- MISSING patch ID
 "size" : "24 GB",
 "releaseDate" : "29 September 2025"
}, {

Resolution

To resolve this issue, please contact Broadcom support