vSphere 9.0 Supervisor Upgrade Prechecks Displays Warning Related to Degraded Mode

Products

• VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

Issue/Introduction

• vCenter has been upgraded to 9.0 successfully, however while upgrading Supervisor cluster in vSphere 9.0 below warning message is displayed.
  
  "The Supervisor version <version name> is interoperable with the current infrastructure in degraded mode. Please refer to the Supervisor upgrade documentation to fetch the list of degraded features."


• Prechecks from vCenter DCLI shows below capabilities are missing in Supervisor.

com vmware vcenter namespacemanagement software supervisors versions checkcompatibility --version <Supervisor desired-version> --supervisor <Supervisor-ID>

  - name: MultipleCL_For_TKG_Supported
status: SUPPORTED_AND_DEGRADED
- name: Workload_Domain_Isolation_Supported
status: SUPPORTED_AND_DEGRADED
- name: supports_namespace_API_fairness
status: SUPPORTED_AND_DEGRADED
- name: supports_pinniped_identity_transformation
status: SUPPORTED_AND_DEGRADED

Environment

vSphere Supervisor 

Cause

This warning is expected behavior when upgrading Supervisor environment from 8.x to 9.x. It indicates that while the Supervisor is compatible with vSphere 9.0, some capabilities may show as 'Enabled' but will not activate until all requirements are met.

Resolution

Below warning can be safely ignored while upgrading Supervisor to 9.x, the upgrade will continue as expected.

"The Supervisor version v1.31.6+vmware.3-fips-vsc9.0.2.0-25129014 is interoperable with the current infrastructure in degraded mode. Please refer to the Supervisor upgrade documentation to fetch the list of degraded features."

• The following capabilities are available after upgrading vCenter and Supervisor to version 9.x
  
  name: MultipleCL_For_TKG_Supported
status: SUPPORTED_AND_DEGRADED
name: Workload_Domain_Isolation_Supported
status: SUPPORTED_AND_DEGRADED


• Whereas below capabilities are available in future release of vCenter
  
  name: supports_namespace_API_fairness
status: SUPPORTED_AND_DEGRADED
name: supports_pinniped_identity_transformation
status: SUPPORTED_AND_DEGRADED