Manage Workload Domain Configuration Drift Between vCenter Server and SDDC Manager

If you make changes to your VMware Cloud Foundation configuration using the vSphere client, you can use the sync workflow in the VCF Import Tool to manually update the SDDC Manager with any out-of-band changes applied from vCenter Server.

If the SDDC Manager and vCenter Server inventories get out of sync, some SDDC Manager workflows may be blocked. You can use this procedure to unblock these tasks.

You can run the sync workflow on vSphere environments that you imported/converted to SDDC Manager workload domains, as well as on workload domains deployed from SDDC Manager.

The sync workflow requires you to specify a workload domain to sync. If you need to sync multiple workload domains, you will have to run the sync workflow multiple times.

Prerequisites

You must have the latest version of the VCF Import Tool on the SDDC Manager appliance.

Procedure

1. If the VCF Import Tool is already deployed on the SDDC Manager appliance, skip to step 3. Otherwise, download it now.
   1. Log in to the Broadcom Support Portal and browse to My Downloads > VMware Cloud Foundation .
   2. Click the version 5.2.
   3. Click Drivers & Tools.
   4. Click the download icon for the VCF Import Tool.
   5. Copy vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz to the SDDC Manager appliance.
2. Copy vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz to the SDDC Manager appliance and extract the archive.
   1. SSH in to the SDDC Manager appliance using the vcf user account.
   2. Create the vcfimport directory.

      mkdir /home/vcf/vcfimport

   3. Copy vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz to the /home/vcf/vcfimport directory.
   4. Extract the contents of vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz.

      tar -xvf vcf-brownfield-import-<version>.tar.gz

3. Run the vcf_brownfield.py script with the sync parameter.
   1. SSH in to the SDDC Manager appliance using the vcf user account.
   2. Navigate to the location of the vcf_brownfield.py script and run the following command:

      python3 vcf_brownfield.py sync --domain-name <selected-domain-name>
      

      Replace <selected-domain-name> with the name of the workload domain you want to sync.