VCF 9.1.1 HCX component upgrade blocks subsequent upgrades

Products

• VCF Operations
• VMware HCX
• VMware SDDC Manager / VCF Installer

Issue/Introduction

HCX Upgrade is available even after successful the HCX upgrade status may continue to show as "available" in the SDDC Manager Lifecycle Management (LCM) UI even after a successful upgradeupgrade.

Environment

VCF 9.1.0 with HCX deployed

Cause

 This occurs when the UI cache has not yet refreshed to reflect the current component state.

Resolution

This issue is typically transient and will resolve itself within one hour as the cache naturally refreshes.

If immediate resolution is required to proceed with further upgrades, you may manually trigger a cache refresh using the API steps below:

1. Fetch the access token, run the following cURL command from the SDDC Manager console:

   $ TOKEN=$(curl -d '{"username" : "<username>", "password" : "<password>"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST https://<sddc-manager>/v1/tokens | jq -r '.accessToken')

2. Trigger the cache refresh, execute the following PATCH command (either via the SDDC Manager Developer Center or the cURL command below from the SDDC Manager console):

   curl -k -X PATCH "https://<sddc-manager>/v1/system/settings/cache" \  -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{}'