VRSLCM

Recently, I have patched our Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager from 8.12.0 to 8.12.x Patch 2 from its web UI and encountered a strange issue where we were getting the following error when trying to get into any of the settings like ‘System Patches, System Upgrade, System Settings, DNS, NTP Servers, Binary Mapping’ etc., on the web UI.

Upon closer inspection, I couldn’t find anything wrong with the appliance itself or its services.

I even restarted the appliance with no success

I checked the vpostgres service, vrlcm-server service and they were active.

Resolution:

I stopped and started the vrlcm-service and this resolved the issue. I am not able to get into all the settings on the VRSLCM Web UI.

The above screenshot shows the commands to stop and start the service on the VRSLCM SSH Session.

Hope this helps if you come across this issue.

I recently came across an issue where the vRealize Life Cycle Manager 2.1 has the Deploy option greyed out in SDDC Manager in VCF 3.10.x and the issue looks like the screenshot below:

The issue happened as we were using VLAN Backed Network for vRealize products instead of AVN in this version of VCF

The solution is as follows:

Log in to SDDC Manager by using a secure shell (SSH) client, use the account vcf to login into SSH session
Type su to elevate to root and enter the root_password.
Enter the following and press enter.

cd /home/vcf
echo "feature.vrealize.enable.non.avn.deployments=true" >> feature.properties
chown vcf:vcf feature.properties
chmod 644 feature.properties
/opt/vmware/vcf/operationsmanager/scripts/cli/sddcmanager_restart_services.sh

When prompted enter Y to confirm. vRealize Suite deployments using SDDC Manager will now be deployed to VLAN backed networks

This is taken from the VMware KB Article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/79267

Hope this helps if you are using VLAN Backed Network for vRealize Components when deploying a new VCF 3.10.x version in your environment.