Aria Suite Lifecycle vIDM deployment validation fails with network not present error as part of the cluster in VCF 5.2.2

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

• A validation error occurs when populating Infrastructure details in Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager for deploying vIDM in a VCF 5.2.2 environment. 
  
  The network DVS_port_group_name is not present as part of cluster datacenter_name#cluster_name. Perform vCenter sync and retry.
  
  
  
  
• The specified DVS port group is available on the specified cluster in vCenter.
• No other errors are observed in the LCM logs.

Environment

VCF 5.2.2

LCM 8.18

Cause

Usage of special characters such as '/' or '\' in naming a DVS port group can lead to validation issues as LCM fails to recognize the network configuration.

Resolution

To workaround the issue, please use' _ '(underscore) instead of '/' (forward slash) or backward slash '\',  as special character,  in the networking details to specify the port group. For example, by using "portgroup-10.0.0.1_24" instead of "portgroup-10.0.0.1/24".