CCI Deployment Fails on ESXi Hosts with Failed to get images lookup projects.packages.broadcom.com server misbehaving

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• CCI Deployment Fails on ESXi Hosts whic do not have access to projects.packages.broadcom.com
• In the vSphere client under Kubernetes -> Events there are failed to get images errors similar to:

Failed to get images: Reason Http request failed. Code 400: ErrorType(2) failed to do request: Head "https://projects.packages.broadcom.com/v2/vcf_cci_service/cci-supervisor-service/manifests: dial tcp: lookup projects.packages.broadcom.com on #.#.#.#: server misbehaving

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.18.x

Cause

Since October 2025 the CCI service image is migrated to new location at projects.packages.broadcom.com

Resolution

To resolve the issue ensure that vCenter appliance and each Esxi host can access https://projects.packages.broadcom.com