When attempting to upgrade VMware Aria Operations for Logs to version 8.18.5 via the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle UI, the upgrade task fails. You may observe the following error message in the request details:
The version of SDDC Manager is greater than the version of the VMware Cloud Foundation BOM maintained by the current version of VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.
Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 (Patch 1)
To resolve this issue, you must update the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle appliance to a Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Patch 5 with following KB - CSP-102092 Patch Instructions for VMware Identity Manager 3.3.7 and VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18.0 Patch 5
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Patch 5 specifically introduces support for:
VMware Aria Operations 8.18.5
VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.5