When you use the VCF Import Tool to import or convert a vSphere environment, you may encounter a warning related to the ESX Upgrade Policy guardrail. This topic helps to resolve the warning.

Problem

In SDDC Manager, the default upgrade policy applies to all clusters, while in vSphere each cluster has a distinct upgrade policy. This can create a scenario where the ESX Upgrade Policy configured in vCenter does not match what SDDC Manager expects.

This issue causes a warning only. You can proceed with the convert or import process without remediating the issue.

Solution

  • ♦ Update the ESX upgrade policy in vCenter to match what SDDC Manager expects as described in the following table. See How to Configure the vSphere Lifecycle Manager Remediation Settings for more information about how to change the cluster settings in the vSphere Client.
    Table 1. Default ESX upgrade policy in SDDC Manager

    Upgrade Policy

    vLCM Images

    vLCM Baselines

    Quick Boot

    Enabled

    VM power state

    Do not change power state

    VM migration

    Migrate powered off and suspended VMs to other hosts in the cluster

    Retry Policy

    Failure action

    RETRY

    FailTask

    Retry delay

    300

    Retry count

    3

    0

    HA admission control

    Enabled

    Disabled

    Distributed Power Management

    Disabled

    Hardware compatibility issues

    Disabled

    Quick Patch

    Disabled