Unable to create SDDC upgrade plan for ESXi host VxRail component VCF 5.2.1 -> 5.2.2

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

The SDDC upgrade completed successfully to target version 5.2.2


Attempting to create an upgrade plan to upgrade VCF BOM components with vCenter, NSX & VxRail selected will not provide an option to apply the update.
There is no visible error banner observed in the SDDC UI advising of a failure.

Environment

VCF 5.2.x
VCF on VxRail 8.0.x

Cause

Mis-matched VxRail product versions observed
Upgrade order is not defined for target release 5.2.1

lcm-debug.log

2026-01-20T11:13:31.166+0000 INFO  [vcf_lcm,xxxxxx] [c.v.e.s.l.s.u.DomainReleaseViewComputationUtil,http-nio-127.0.0.1-7400-exec-1] mismatchedProductVersion VX_MANAGER=[8.0.310-28809519]

 

2026-01-20T11:13:10.802+0000 DEBUG [vcf_lcm,xxxxxxx] [c.v.e.s.l.s.v.i.BomBundlesAvailabilityServiceImpl,Scheduled-6] validating vxrail bundle path [null]
2026-01-20T11:13:10.807+0000 DEBUG [vcf_lcm,xxxxxxx] [c.v.e.s.l.d.c.m.LcmManifestClientImpl,Scheduled-6] Found manifest with version 1 and sequence number 111
2026-01-20T11:13:10.815+0000 DEBUG [vcf_lcm,xxxxxxx] [c.v.e.s.l.d.c.m.LcmManifestClientImpl,Scheduled-6] Found manifest with version 1 and sequence number 111
2026-01-20T11:13:10.820+0000 DEBUG [vcf_lcm,xxxxxxx] [c.v.e.s.l.d.c.m.LcmManifestClientImpl,Scheduled-6] Found manifest with version 1 and sequence number 111
2026-01-20T11:13:10.826+0000 DEBUG [vcf_lcm,xxxxxxx] [c.v.e.s.l.d.c.m.LcmManifestClientImpl,Scheduled-6] Found manifest with version 1 and sequence number 111
2026-01-20T11:13:10.827+0000 DEBUG [vcf_lcm,xxxxxxx] [c.v.e.s.l.s.i.LcmManifestServiceImpl,Scheduled-6] Current vcfWithVxRailDomainVersions map from inventory: {5.2.1=[8.0.361-29253789]}
2026-01-20T11:13:10.828+0000 DEBUG [vcf_lcm,xxxxxxx] [c.v.e.s.l.s.i.LcmManifestServiceImpl,Scheduled-6] VxRail include list for version: 5.2.1 : [8.0.310-28809519]
2026-01-20T11:13:10.829+0000 DEBUG [vcf_lcm,xxxxxxx] [c.v.e.s.l.s.i.UpgradeSequencerServiceImplPreferred,Scheduled-6] Upgrade order is not defined for target release 5.2.1.0 or BOM is customized:'true'. Using the default upgrade sequence
2026-01-20T11:13:10.829+0000 ERROR [xxxxxxx] [c.g.common.eventbus.EventBus.default,Scheduled-6] Exception thrown by subscriber method recieveMessage(com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.model.task.AbstractLcmControllableScheduledTask) on subscriber com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.core.scheduler.BundleDownloadScheduler@xxxxxxx when dispatching event: com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.core.scheduler.BundleDownloadScheduler@xxxxxxx
java.lang.NullPointerException: null

Resolution

VxRail is expecting vCenter & NSX components to be on the target VCF version before a planned upgrade against VxRail component can be completed

- Select only vCenter & NSX components in the upgrade plan.
- Apply the updates
- Ensure the target version VxRail bundle is present in Bundle management
- Create upgrade plan for ESXi host VxRail BOM component
- Apply the update

Additional Information

https://davidring.ie/2025/10/22/vcf-on-vxrail-5-2-1-1-to-5-2-2-upgrade-management-wld/
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-5-2-and-earlier/5-2/upgrade-the-management-domain-to-vmware-cloud-foundation-5-2.html