Error: VCF Automation 9.1 deployment fails with password complexity requirements

Products

• VCF Automation
• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

The process fails with a password complexity validation error. Attempting to restart the deployment is unsuccessful due to the following behaviors:

• In VCF Ops > Build > Lifecycle > VCF Management > Task : Install components: VCF Automation [SDDC LCM ########-####-####-####-############]

  task status Failed
  Initiation: admin
  Task id: ########-####-####-####-############
  Subtask: Validate components specifications before installation, Subtask status: Failed.

• The Fleet manager logs services-logs / vcf-fleet-lcm / vcf-servicesruntime###-##### / vcf-fleet-build-service-fleetbuild-##########-#####/ fleetbuild displays the following exception:

  taskId=######-####-####-####-############] - The password for component with type 'VCFA' does not meet complexity requirements.Password must be at least 15 characters long and no longer than 64 characters long, must contain at least 1 upper case letter, at least 1 lower case letter,at least one of the following special characters '!', '@', '#', '$', '^', '*',at least 1 numeric character. No other character types are allowed.

Environment

VCF Operations 9.1

VCF Fleet Management 9.1

VCF Automation 9.1

Cause

The password provided for the VCF Automation (VCFA) component does not meet strict security regex requirements defined by the deployment validator. Once the task fails, stale entries in the SDDC Manager database or component runtime prevent standard UI-based retry operations.

Resolution

Restart the VCF Automation deployment using a password that adheres to the following requirements:

• 15-64 characters long.
• Must contain at least 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 numeric character, and 1 special character (!, @, #, $, or ^).
• Allocate a minimum of 5 free IPs for VCFA deployment.

Additional Information

Default Password Requirements for VCF Components

First VCF Instance FQDNs and IP addresses

Failed component cleanup during VCF 9.1 installation or upgrade