"Failed to prepare primary ESXi Host for vSAN" when trying to add host with existing configuration to new VCF cluster

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

Logs show hostname issue:

/var/log/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/domainmanager.log 

YYYY-MM-DDT##:##:##.###+0000 ERROR [vcf_##,#########################,####] [c.v.e.s.o.model.error.ErrorFactory,dm-exec-19]  [#####] VSPHERE_PREPARE_PRIMARY_HOST_FAILED Primary ESXi hostname is blank.
com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.exceptions.OrchTaskException: Primary ESXi hostname is blank.

ESXi host certificate Subject had "unstructuredName".  

Environment

VCF 5.2

Cause

Trying to add a host with existing configuration present to a new VCF cluster. 

Resolution

Reinstall ESXi on ESXi host to prepare for valid deployment.  

Additional Information

Prepare ESXi Hosts for VMware Cloud Foundation

Install ESXi Interactively and Configure Hosts for VMware Cloud Foundation