Existing VCF Operations collector cannot be used when converging to VCF

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

You have manually deployed a VCF Operations collector in the non-VCF environment.

When trying to converge the existing non-VCF environment to VCF with `useExistingDeployment` for the VCF Operations collector set to `true` in the json spec, the validation fails with the error below.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

Cause

This is expected behavior. The VCF Operations collector is not supported for import when converging to VCF.

Resolution

Set `useExistingDeployment` for the VCF Operations collector to `false` in the json spec.

 "vcfOperationsCollectorSpec": {

    "hostname": "__FQDN_OF_COLLECTOR__",

    "applianceSize": "__APPLIANCE_SIZE__",

    "rootUserPassword": "__PASSWORD__",

    "useExistingDeployment": false

 },

A new VCF Operations collector is automatically deployed during the converging.