Skip ping connectivity test to the ESXi host during Host commission in VMware Cloud Foundation

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation
• VMware SDDC Manager / VCF Installer

Issue/Introduction

During the ESXi host commissioning workflow, pre-validation test runs which performs a ping connectivity test from SDDC Manager to ESXi hosts management network. The host commissioning workflow does not allow commissioning of new ESXi hosts unless this test passes. 

Environment

VCF 5.2.3 

VCF 9.1

Cause

Due to validation to test the ping connectivity to the ESXi Hosts

Resolution

Support for disabling this Ping test validation has been introduced for a host commission workflow.

Workaround:
Important: This workaround is applicable for VCF 5.2.3, VCF 9.1 and onwards.

To skip the Ping validation, please use the steps below.

1. Open a SSH session to the SSDC Manager VM and change to the root user
   su -
   
   
2. Edit the application properties file of the domain manager application. Based on the VCF version, the application properties file to edit is:
   
   VCF 5.2.3, VCF 9.1 and onwards: /etc/vmware/vcf/operationsmanager/application.properties
   
   
3. Append the follow line to that file:
   validation.disable.ping.connectivity.check=true
   
   
4. Restart the Operations Manager service
   systemctl restart operationsmanager
   
   
5. Retry the failed host commission workflow