| VMware Cloud Director 10.3.3.3 | 27 OCT 2022 | Build 20685593 (installed build 20685133) Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
| VMware Cloud Director 10.3.3.3 | 27 OCT 2022 | Build 20685593 (installed build 20685133) Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
The VMware Cloud Director 10.3.3.3 release provides bug fixes, updates the VMware Cloud Director appliance base OS and the VMware Cloud Director open-source components.
For information about system requirements and installation instructions, see VMware Cloud Director 10.3 Release Notes.
To access the full set of product documentation, go to VMware Cloud Director Documentation.
New - All tenants in a multi-tenant VMware Cloud Director environment can see the port profiles for a specific organization
In a multi-tenant VMware Cloud Director environment, if an organization administrator enables the load-balancing services for an organization by using the capabilities of VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks), the application port profiles become visible for all tenants in this multi-tenant VMware Cloud Director environment.
The left panel displays duplicate menu items for an edge gateway
If you log in to the VMware Cloud Director portals as a user with no Load Balancer View Only rights, the left panel portal displays duplicate menu items.
Editing the IPSec VPN tunnel fails with an IPSec VPN Tunnel with id XXXX not found on Edge Gateway error message
On an edge gateway, if you configure more than 25 IPSec VPN tunnels, editing one of the IPSec VPN tunnels fails with an error message.
IPSec VPN Tunnel with id XXXX not found on Edge Gateway
User accounts with only View permissions can edit existing named disks
If you log in to the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal as a user with only View rights, you can edit the existing named disks.
VMware Cloud Director API does not assign the user-defined Maximum Compute Policy after converting a reservation pool organization VDC into a flex organization VDC
When you use the VMware Cloud Director API to convert an reservation pool organization VDC into a flex organization VDC, the flex organization VDC does not get the user-defined Maximum Compute Policy. As a result, creating a new VM in the organization VDC fails with an error message.
vDC cpu reservation, memory reservation or vCpu speed cannot exceed values defined in vDC maximum compute policy. Maximum Cpu reservation 0, Maximum Memory reservation 0, Maximum vCpuSpeed null.
An attempt to migrate a VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere (NSX-V) backed provider VDC to an organization VDC of NSX-T Data Center backed provider VDC fails with an Internal Server Error error message
If you disconnect an isolated network from an organization VDC, attempting to migrate the same organization VDC from NSX-V backed provider VDC to an organization VDC of NSX-T fails with an error message.
Internal Server Error
The Edit Port Groups for <external-network> dialog box is empty
In a multisite environment, when you attempt to edit the configured distributed port group on an external network, the Edit Port Groups for <external-network> dialog box is empty and does not display any information.
An attempt to review the IPsec VPN Screen results in an Http failure response error message
If you configure more than 50 IPsec VPN tunnels on an edge gateway, when you navigate to the IPsec VPN screen, the UI displays an error message.
Http failure response for https://<public-url>/cloudapi/1.0.0/edgeGateways/urn:vcloud:gateway:5b240e42-3b84-4fb0-be13-d9344866b561/ipsec/tunnels?pageSize=128: 500 Server Error
After VMware Cloud Director upgrade from version 10.2.2.x, adding a new node to the cluster fails with a file could not be found error
Upgrading VMware Cloud Director changes the location of the certificates.ks file which causes adding new nodes to fail with the following error.
Error: file could not be found: /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/user.http.pem
Error: invalid input: No valid HTTP SSL certificate providedNew - VMs become non-compliant after converting a reservation pool VDC into a flex organization VDC
In an organization VDC with a reservation pool allocation model, if some of the VMs have nonzero reservation for CPU and Memory, non-unlimited configuration for CPU and Memory, or both, after converting into a flex organization VDC, these VMs become non-compliant. If you attempt to make the VMs compliant again, the system applies an incorrect policy for the reservation and limit and sets the CPU and Memory reservations to zero and the limits to Unlimited.
Workaround:
A system administrator must create a VM sizing policy with the correct configuration.
A system administrator must publish the new VM sizing policy to the converted flex organization VDC.
The tenants can use the VMware Cloud Director API or the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal to assign the VM sizing policy to the existing virtual machines in the flex organization VDC.
New - Migrating VMs between organization VDCs might fail with an insufficient resource error
If VMware Cloud Director is running with vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3h or earlier, when relocating a VM to a different organization VDC, the VM migration might fail with an insufficient resource error even if the resources are available in the target organization VDC.
Workaround: Upgrade vCenter Server to version 7.0 Update 3i or later.
New - Suspending a VM through the VMware Cloud Director UI results in a partially suspended state of the VM
In the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal, when you suspend a VM, VMware Cloud Director does not undeploy the VM, and the VM becomes Partially Suspended instead of Suspended.
Workaround: None.
New - Role name and description are localized in the VMware Cloud Director UI and can cause duplication of role names
The problem occurs because the UI translation does not affect the back end and API. You might create roles with the same names as the translated names which results in perceived duplicate roles in the UI and conflicts with the API usage of role names when creating service accounts.
Workaround: None.
When starting the VMware Cloud Director appliance, the message [FAILED] Failed to start Wait for Network to be Configured. See 'systemctl status systemd-networkd-wait-online.service' for details appears.
The message appears incorrectly and does not indicate an actual problem with the network. You can disregard the message and continue to use the VMware Cloud Director appliance as usual.
Workaround: None.
The Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) status is Enabled even after deactivating it during the installation of VMware Cloud Director
During the installation of VMware Cloud Director, if you deactivate the option to join the CEIP, after the installation completes, the CEIP status is active.
Workaround: Deactivate the CEIP by following the steps in the Join or Leave the VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program procedure.
VMware Cloud Director appliance upgrade fails with an invalid version error when FIPS mode is enabled
For VMware Cloud Director versions 10.3.x and later, when FIPS mode is enabled, VMware Cloud Director appliance upgrade fails with the following error.
Failure: Installation failed abnormally (program aborted), the current version may be invalid.
Workaround:
Before you upgrade the VMware Cloud Director appliance, deactivate FIPS Mode on the cells in the server group and the VMware Cloud Director appliance. See Activate or Deactivate FIPS Mode on the VMware Cloud Director Appliance.
Verify that the /etc/vmware/system_fips file does not exist on any appliance.
Upgrade the VMware Cloud Director appliance.
Enable FIPS mode again.
After upgrade, configuring an additional cell in the existing server group fails with a validation error
When you upgrade to version 10.3.3.1 and later, VMware Cloud Director modifies the file permissions for the NFS mount directory to 770. The directory permission must be 750, and as a result, the deployment of new cells fails with the following error.
Backend validation of NFS mount failed with: Unexpected ownership and/or permissions on provided NFS share. Expected: vcloud:vcloud with mode: 750. Found: vcloud:vcloud with mode 770
Workaround: After you upgrade all cells, log in to any cell, and change the file permission for the mounted NFS folder to 750 using the following command.
# chmod 750 /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transferSee Preparing the Transfer Server Storage for the VMware Cloud Director Appliance.
If you upgrade an appliance after changing the permission, you must change the permission to 750 again.
Refreshing the LDAP page in your browser does not take you back to the same page
In the Service Provider Admin Portal, refreshing the LDAP page in your browser takes you to the provider page instead of back to the LDAP page.
Workaround: None.
An attempt to migrate tenant storage fails with an Internal Server Error error message
In the HTML5 UI, using the Migrate Tenant Storage option to migrate all the items stored on a datastore to other datastores in an SDRS Clusterfails to migrate the VMs with an errors message.
Internal Server ErrorCaused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: The operation failed because no suitable resource was found. Out of x candidate hubs:x hubs eliminated because: No valid storage containers found for VirtualMachine "{vm-uuid}". All x available storage containers were filtered out as being invalid.
Workaround: See the https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/88703?lang=en_US KB.
Mounting an NFS datastore from NetApp storage array fails with an error message during the initial VMware Cloud Director appliance configuration
During the initial VMware Cloud Director appliance configuration, if you configure an NFS datastore from NetApp storage array, the operation fails with an error message.
Backend validation of NFS failed with: is owned by an unknown user
Workaround: Configure the VMware Cloud Director appliance by using the VMware Cloud Director Appliance API.
The synchronization of a subscribed catalog times out while synchronizing large vApp templates
If an external catalog contains large vApp templates, synchronizing the subscribed catalog with the external catalog times out.This happens when the timeout setting is set to its default value of five minutes.
Workaround: Using the manage-config subcommand of the cell management tool, update the timeout configuration setting.
./cell-management-tool manage-config -n transfer.endpoint.socket.timeout -v [timeout-value]
After upgrade to VMware Cloud Director 10.3.2a, opening the list of external networks results in a warning message
When trying to open the list of external networks, the VMware Cloud Director UI displays a warning message.
One or more external networks or T0 Gateways have been disconnected from its IP address data.
This happens because the external network gets disconnected from the Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) configuration before the upgrade to VMware Cloud Director 10.3.2a.
Workaround: Contact VMware Global Support Services (GSS) for assistance with the workaround for this issue.
In an IP prefix list, configuring any as the Network value results in an error message
When creating an IP prefix list, if want to deny or accept any route and you configure the Network value as any, the dialog box displays an error message.
"any" is not a valid CIDR notation. A valid CIDR is a valid IP address followed by a slash and a number between 0 and 32 or 64, depending on the IP version.
Workaround: Leave the Network text box blank.
If you use vRealize Orchestrator 8.x, hidden input parameters in workflows are not populated automatically in the VMware Cloud Director UI
If you use vRealize Orchestrator 8.x, when you attempt to run a workflow through the VMware Cloud Director UI, hidden input parameters are not populated automatically in the VMware Cloud Director UI.
Workaround:To access the values of the workflow input parameters, you must create a vRealize Orchestrator action that has the same input parameter values as the workflow that you want to run.
Log in to the vRealize Orchestrator Client and navigate to Library>Workflows.
Select the Input Form tab and click Values on the right-hand side.
From the Value options drop-down menu, select External source,enter the Action inputs and click Save.
Run the workflow in the VMware Cloud Director UI.
The vpostgres process in a standby appliance fails to start
The vpostgres process in a standby appliance fails to start and the PostgreSQL log shows an error similar to the following. FATAL: hot standby is not possible because max_worker_processes = 8 is a lower setting than on the master server (its value was 16). This happens because PostgreSQL requires standby nodes to have the same max_worker_processes setting as the primary node. VMware Cloud Director automatically configures the max_worker_processes setting based on the number of vCPUs assigned to each appliance VM. If the standby appliance has fewer vCPUs than the primary appliance, this results in an error.
Workaround: Deploy the primary and standby appliances with the same number of vCPUs.
VMware Cloud Director API calls to retrieve vCenter Server information return a URL instead of a UUID
The issue occurs with vCenter Server instances that failed the initial registration with VMware Cloud Director version 10.2.1 and earlier. For those vCenter Server instances, when you make API calls to retrieve the vCenter Server information, the VMware Cloud Director API incorrectly returns a URL instead of the expected UUID.
Workaround: Reconnect to the vCenter Server instance to VMware Cloud Director.
Upgrading from VMware Cloud Director 10.2.x to VMware Cloud Director 10.3.x results in an Connection to sfcbd lost error message
If you upgrade from VMware Cloud Director 10.2.x to VMware Cloud Director 10.3, the upgrade operation reports an error message.
Connection to sfcbd lost. Attempting to reconnect
Workaround: You can ignore the error message and continue with the upgrade.
When using FIPS mode, trying to upload OpenSSL-generated PKCS8 files fails with an error
OpenSSL cannot generate FIPS-complaint private keys. When VMware Cloud Director is in FIPS mode and you try to upload PKCS8 files generated using OpenSSL, the upload fails with a Bad request: org.bouncycastle.pkcs.PKCSException: unable to read encrypted data: ... not available: No such algorithm: ...error or salt must be at least 128 bits error.
Workaround: Deactivate the FIPS mode to upload the PKCS8 files.
Creation of Tanzu Kubernetes cluster by using the Kubernetes Container Clusters plug-in fails
When you create a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster by using the Kubernetes Container Clusters plug-in, you must select a Kubernetes version. Some of the versions in the drop-down menu are not compatible with the backing vSphere infrastructure. When you select an incompatible version, the cluster creation fails.
Workaround: Delete the failed cluster record and retry with a compatible Tanzu Kubernetes version. For information on the incompatibilities between Tanzu Kubernetes and vSphere, see Updating the vSphere with Tanzu Environment.
If you have any subscribed catalogs in your organization, when you upgrade VMware Cloud Director, the catalog synchronization fails
After upgrade, if you have subscribed catalogs in your organization, VMware Cloud Director does not trust the published endpoint certificates automatically. Without trusting the certificates, the content library fails to synchronize.
Workaround: Manually trust the certificates for each catalog subscription. When you edit the catalog subscription settings, a trust on first use (TOFU) dialog prompts you to trust the remote catalog certificate.
If you do not have the necessary rights to trust the certificate, contact your organization administrator.
After upgrading VMware Cloud Director and enabling the Tanzu Kubernetes cluster creation, no automatically generated policy is available and you cannot create or publish a policy
When you upgrade VMware Cloud Director to version 10.3.1 and vCenter Server to version 7.0.0d or later, and you create a provider VDC backed by a Supervisor Cluster, VMware Cloud Director displays a Kubernetes icon next to the VDC. However, there is no automatically generated Kubernetes policy in the new provider VDC. When you try to create or publish a Kubernetes policy to an organization VDC, no machine classes are available.
Workaround: Manually trust the corresponding Kubernetes endpoint certificates. See VMware knowledge base article 83583.
Entering a Kubernetes cluster name with non-Latin characters deactivates the Next button in the Create New Cluster wizard
The Kubernetes Container Clusters plug-in supports only Latin characters. If you enter non-Latin characters, the following error appears.
Name must start with a letter and only contain alphanumeric or hyphen (-) characters. (Max 128 characters).
Workaround: None.
NFS downtime can cause VMware Cloud Director appliance cluster functionalities to malfunction
If the NFS is unavailable due to the NFS share being full, becoming read only, and so on, can cause appliance cluster functionalities to malfunction. HTML5 UI is unresponsive while the NFS is down or cannot be reached. Other functionalities that might be affected are the fencing out of a failed primary cell, switchover, promoting a standby cell, and so on. For more information about setting up correctly the NFS shared storage, see Preparing the Transfer Server Storage for the VMware Cloud Director Appliance.
Workaround:
Fix the NFS state so that it is not read-only.
Clean up the NFS share if it is full.
Trying to encrypt named disks in vCenter Server version 6.5 or earlier fails with an error
For vCenter Server instances version 6.5 or earlier, if you try to associate new or existing named disks with an encryption enabled policy, the operation fails with a Named disk encryption is not supported in this version of vCenter Server. error.
Workaround: None.
A fast-provisioned virtual machine created on a VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI) enabled NFS array, or vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVols) cannot be consolidated
In-place consolidation of a fast provisioned virtual machine is not supported when a native snapshot is used. Native snapshots are always used by VAAI-enabled datastores, as well as by VVols. When a fast-provisioned virtual machine is deployed to one of these storage containers, that virtual machine cannot be consolidated .
Workaround: Do not enable fast provisioning for an organization VDC that uses VAAI-enabled NFS or VVols. To consolidate a virtual machine with a snapshot on a VAAI or a VVol datastore, relocate the virtual machine to a different storage container.
If you add an IPv6 NIC to a VM and then you add an IPv4 NIC to the same VM, the IPv4 north-south traffic breaks
Using the HTML5 UI, if you add an IPv6 NIC first or configure an IPv6 NIC as the primary NIC in a VM, and then you add an IPv4 NIC to the same VM, the IPv4 north-south communication breaks.
Workaround: First you must add the IPv4 NIC to the VM and then the IPv6 NIC.
