vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1 |  May 21 2020 Check for additions and updates to these release notes.

Patches in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

This section contains information about patch 1 in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1.

What's New?

• Scale-out of Patched Environments 
• Integration improvements between vRealize Automation and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

Symptoms

This section describes the bugs and their solution that were resolved in this patch.

Row	Summary	Symptom	Solution
1	VMware Identity Manager update server precheck fails for a VMware Identity Manager upgrade, even when you opt for an offline upgrade.	VMware Identity Manager update server check is required only for VMware default repository. The check is mostly required for online upgrades.	If you are using an older version of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, you can skip or ignore this precheck for an offline upgrade and proceed further.
2	Mapping vRealize Automation 8.x Install OVA in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is not automated	vRealize Automation 8.x Install OVA mapping in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager UI if the mapping is not present. If a corrupt file is present in the vrslcm contentrepo.	You can perform a Local or NFS source mapping of vRealize Automation 8.x install OVA file after placing the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Easy installer in LCM/data folder or NFS location. Alternatively, vRealize Automation 8.x install can be mapped using My VMware Source mapping option where vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Easy installer ISO file corresponding to the vRealize Automation version will be downloaded and extracted to obtain the required OVA file.
3	Scale out operation of vRealize Automation 8.x cannot be performed on a vRealize Automation setup which has a patch installed.	If there is a mismatch in the version, then vRealize Automation 8.x scale out fails.	The vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1 Installation Guide provides a detailed procedure to handle Scale out patched environments. For more information, see Scale-out of Patched Environments.
4	vRealize Automation 8.x upgrade repository URL is using http instead of https.	When http upgrade repository URL is used instead of https,vRealize Automation 8.x upgrade fails at prepare upgrade.
5	The upgrade failure error message in vRealize Automation 7.x does not clearly specify what has failed.	vRealize Automation 7.x upgrade failure does not contain the details of what has failed in vRealize Automation and the failure was not captured in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager request page.
6	The VC credentials provided in the Retry option of the failed Inventory sync is not persistent.	The VC credentials provided in the Retry option of the failed inventory sync because of  invalid credentials are not getting persisted. This causes the next sync to fail.	A error message occurs when VC credentials are added: Password mismatch between retry inputs and password in VC in Datacenter
7	contentEndpiontVersion value is set as 7.x for vRealize Orchestrator packages regardless of capturing from any endpoint version.	vRealize Orchestrator content will be deployed successfully from vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. But the vRealize Orchestrator endpoint does not display the deployed content.

Resolution

For vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Virtual Appliances

Download Filename	vrlcm-8.1-PATCH1.patch
Download Size	598 MB
Build	16256465
Checksums	md5sum:418acc19d7c12b8865e9236ac895e148 sha1sum:e91b11cd56fbf493061eb31770bb7faa96a53dc5 sha256sum:7ab0300882a51059744399e96b5cee54457d268f028cf931a90b4895d5bba824

Download and Installation

This section describes the prerequisites and the download instructions you should know before installing the software. If the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VA is not connected to Internet, you can download this patch by going to the  VMware Patch Download Center and select vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager from the Search by Product drop-down menu. 

When vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VA is not connected to Internet.

1. Verify that you have taken a snapshot of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VA.
2. Log in to vRealize Lifecycle Manager VA.
3. On the Lifecycle Operations dashboard, navigate to Settings > Binary Mapping  and click Patch Binaries.
4. Click UPLOAD and click SELECT FILE to upload the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager version 8.1 Patch 1 downloaded from VMware Patch Download Center.
5. Once you upload the patch, navigate to Settings > System Patches.
6. Click NEW PATCH, select the patch, and click NEXT.
7. To install the patch, click INSTALL. Once the patch install is triggered successfully, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager services are restarted and you are redirected to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager UI login page.

   Note: To verify your new patch, on the Lifecycle Operations dashboard navigate to Settings > System Patches, and check Patch Details.

If the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VA is connected to Internet, follow the instruction below.

1. Verify that you have taken a snapshot of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VA.
2. Log in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VA.
3. On the Lifecycle Operations dashboard, navigate to Settings > Binary Mapping  and click Patch Binaries.
4. Click CHECK PATCHES ONLINE and once the request is complete, search vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1 patch and download the patch.
5. Once you have downloaded the patch, navigate to Settings > System Patches.
6. Click NEW PATCH, select the patch, and click NEXT.
7. To install the patch, click INSTALL. Once the patch install is triggered successfully, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager services are restarted and you are redirected to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager UI login page.

          Note: To verify your new patch, on the Lifecycle Operations dashboard navigate to Settings >System Patches, and check Patch Details.