VCF 9.1 deployment fails with "The Fleet lifecycle 'OVA component installation' task with ID xx-xx-xxx failed. Internal errors: Failed to deploy VCF Operations node. Check vCenter tasks for errors."
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VCF 9.1 deployment fails with "The Fleet lifecycle 'OVA component installation' task with ID xx-xx-xxx failed. Internal errors: Failed to deploy VCF Operations node. Check vCenter tasks for errors."

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Article ID: 446095

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Products

VMware SDDC Manager / VCF Installer

Issue/Introduction

  • VCF 9.1 deployment fails with the following error message

"The Fleet lifecycle 'OVA component installation' task with ID xx-xx-xxx failed. Internal errors: Failed to deploy VCF Operations node. Check vCenter tasks for errors."

  • The SDDC Build Service console logs show the following errors where the download URL is pointed to 127.0.0.1

2026-06-16T17:38:40.553590137Z stdout F 2026-06-16T17:38:40.552Z DEBUG sddc-build-service 44 [lcm@4413 scPath="ops" thread="system-task-worker-22" logger="c.b.v.l.t.o.s.step.AbstractSyncStep" method="start:41"] [019ed12c-c5ab-78bb-9d36-59b59f94327f, taskId=019ed17e-c70c-7f97-8ac7-e3cb8986b2be] - Starting DEPLOY_OPS_NODE_TASK from workflow INSTALL_OPS_WORKFLOW with input {"opsNodeOvaSp
ecs":[{"vmName":"XXX","deploymentOption":"small","rootPassword":"*****","fqdn":"XXXt","dnsServers":"xx.xx.xx.xx,xx.xx.xx.xx","ntpServers":"xxx","dnsSuffix":"xx.xx.xx","networkName":"management-xxx","ipv4Settings":

{"addressType":"Static","address":"xx.xx.xx.xx","gateway":"xx.xx.xx.xx","netmask":"255.255.255.0"}
,"i
pv6Settings":null,"repository":

{"downloadUrl":"https://127.0.0.1/vmware/vcf/bundle/2a4a0cfa-c823-5999-a831-f12dc522b95f/2a4a0cfa-c823-5999-a831-f12dc522b95f/Operations-Appliance-9.1.0.0.25346025.ova","certificate":null}
,"type":"MASTER","version":"9.1.0.0.25346025","placement":{"vcEndpoint":

{"address":"VC_FQDN","username":"svc-xxx@vsphere.local","password":"*****"}
,"datastoreName":"vsan","clusterName":"CLUSTER","datacenterName":"DC","resourcePoolName":"xxxx","vmFolderName":null},"extraConfigProperties":{},"deploymentMode":"DEPLOY_AND_MONITOR"}]}
2026-06-16T17:38:40.553692047Z stdout F 2026-06-16T17:38:40.553Z INFO sddc-build-service 44 [lcm@4413 scPath="ops" thread="system-task-worker-22" logger="c.b.v.l.t.o.s.step.AbstractSyncStep" method="start:56"] [019ed12c-c5ab-78bb-9d36-59b59f94327f, taskId=019ed17e-c70c-7f97-8ac7-e3cb8986b2be] - Retry requested on step: deploy_ops_node_task_ref with retryCount 3

2026-06-16T17:38:40.555277949Z stdout F 2026-06-16T17:38:40.555Z DEBUG sddc-build-service 44 [lcm@4413 scPath="ops" thread="system-task-worker-22" logger="c.b.v.l.s.b.p.o.a.DeployOpsNodeAction" method="execute:144"] [019ed12c-c5ab-78bb-9d36-59b59f94327f, taskId=019ed17e-c70c-7f97-8ac7-e3cb8986b2be] - DeployOpsNodeAction execute start

2026-06-16T17:38:40.889550785Z stdout F 2026-06-16T17:38:40.889Z INFO sddc-build-service 44 [lcm@4413 scPath="ops" thread="sddc-build-exec-2" logger="c.b.v.l.s.b.p.o.a.DeployOpsNodeAction" method="deploy:218"] [] - Deploying VCF Ops VM VCF_OPS_FQDN
2026-06-16T17:38:40.890420855Z stdout F 2026-06-16T17:38:40.889Z ERROR sddc-build-service 44 [lcm@4413 scPath="ops" thread="sddc-build-exec-2" logger="c.b.v.l.s.b.p.common.util.SslUtil" method="getCertificateChain:120"] [] - Error occurred while getting certificate chain for '127.0.0.1:443'.
2026-06-16T17:38:40.890457224Z stdout F java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

2026-06-16T17:38:41.096715071Z stdout F 2026-06-16T17:38:41.096Z ERROR sddc-build-service 44 [lcm@4413 scPath="ops" thread="sddc-build-exec-2" logger="c.b.v.l.s.b.p.o.a.DeployOpsNodeAction" method="deploySingleNode:204"] [] - Exception occurred while doing VCF Ops OVF deployment
2026-06-16T17:38:41.096732243Z stdout F com.broadcom.vcf.lcm.build.common.exception.GenericServerException: Unexpected server error has occurred.

2026-06-16T17:38:41.09717844Z stdout F 2026-06-16T17:38:41.096Z ERROR sddc-build-service 44 [lcm@4413 scPath="ops" thread="system-task-worker-22" logger="c.b.v.l.s.b.p.o.a.DeployOpsNodeAction" method="lambda$execute$5:159"] [019ed12c-c5ab-78bb-9d36-59b59f94327f, taskId=019ed17e-c70c-7f97-8ac7-e3cb8986b2be] - Unable to deploy VCF Ops node
2026-06-16T17:38:41.097192324Z stdout F com.broadcom.vcf.lcm.build.common.exception.GenericServerException: Unexpected server error has occurred.

 

Environment

VCF 9.1

Cause

This issue occurs due to the /etc/hosts file on the VCF installer/SDDC Manager pointing it's FQDN to 127.0.0.1 instead of it's actual IP address

Resolution

To resolve this issue perform the following steps:

1. Take a snapshot of the VCF Installer / SDDC Manager VM

2. Login to the VCF Installer / SDDC Manager VM via SSH as vcf user. Sudo over to root.

3. Edit the /etc/hosts file to remove the 127.0.0.1 entry record which points to the VCF Installer / SDDC Manager FQDN. Point the VCF Installer / SDDC Manager IP address to the FQDN. Do not modify any of the other entries in the /etc/hosts file. 

Bad Entry

Working Entry

4. Edit the file /etc/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/application.properties

vi /etc/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/application.properties

5. Add the following line to the end of the file

fleetlcm.task.id.to.recreate=<FBS_TASK_UUID>

Where <FBS_TASK_UUID> is the Task ID in the VCF Installer UI failed task window. 

6. Restart the domainmanager service

systemctl restart domainmanager

7. VCF Installer will then retry to deploy VCF Operations and VCF Cloud Proxy 

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