VCF Operations Fleet Management Deployment Fails with "VRSLCM_DEPLOYMENT_FAILED" due to password complexity not met

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

• Deploying VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle or VCF Operations Fleet Management in SDDC Manager, the task fails during the appliance deployment phase.
  
  
• SDDC Manager UI Reports VRSLCM_DEPLOYMENT_FAILED with a message suggesting network issues or Jumbo frames as below,
  
  UI error, "Deploy VCF Operations fleet management","status":"FAILED","errorCode":"VRSLCM_DEPLOYMENT_FAILED","errorType". "message":"VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle deployment failed.","remediationMessage":"Check if the Jumbo frames between SDDC Manager network and the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle network are enabled and if the required ports listed at https://ports.esp.vmware.com are open.","causes":[],"referenceToken":"#####"}]},


• /var/log/vmware/vcf/domainmanager.log on SDDC Manager

YYYY-MM-HH ERROR [vcf_dm,######] [c.v.evo.sddc.common.util.SshUtil,dm-exec-##] Unable to create jsch CLI session:
com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Auth fail   


•  /var/log/bootstrap/firstboot.log on Fleet Management appliance

YYYY-MM-HH vrlcm-cap-firstboot Setting the root password from OVFEnv.
YYYY-MM-HH vrlcm-cap-firstboot passwd exit-code: 1

Environment

• VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.x
• VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.x

Cause

A password error occurs if the deployment password contains forbidden substrings matching local account names (e.g., "root", "admin").

Resolution

Proceed to re-initiate the deployment workflow after editing the json spec to ensure the passwords meet the pre-requisite. 

For VCF 5.2.x environments:

• Re-try an existing workflow by modifying the workflow spec file 

For VCF 9.x environments:

• Retry VCF 9.0 Installer workflow by modifying the deployment workflow JSON SPEC file