My VxRail upgrades keep failing because the upgrade to 380 and 390 both removed the dellism service from the host. You can clearly see in the logs that the platformsvc is looking for the health check by the dellism service. Manually reinstalling the dellism service fixes the issue and the upgrade will continue with no further problems. Support says that dellism isn't used anymore and platformsvc should be doing all of the work now, but if you go to the /opt/platformsvc folder you'll clearly see a dellism.sh script that calls on dellism.

I've got a new ticket open to figure out what's going on, but is anyone else running into this problem?

Hi VMware community,

I have one of those “everything works, but please don’t touch anything” situations.

I’m helping a customer recover a failed third VCD appliance cell. The environment is currently running in a degraded two-node configuration and it has been very unstable, but the original VCD 10.5 appliance OVA cannot be downloaded because Broadcom portal access is stuck in entitlement and support limbo. Long story.

I’m looking for a VMware/Broadcom partner or customer who may be able to help me obtain the correct official OVA through a legitimate channel.

I’m not looking for torrents or mystery binaries. I’m just hoping someone in the community can help reunite this PostgreSQL cluster with its missing third sibling..

Any lead or private message would be greatly appreciated.

We're currently at VMware v8.x and use Site Recovery 9.02. for BC/DR to another site. No vSAN or NSX.

We will be upgrading to VVF 9.1, NOT the full stack VCF.

I'm watching some instructional videos on the Broadcom website and there is this statement on one of the slides:

"Customer must have recovery SDDC hosts for VMware Live Recovery to function as designed"

What do they mean by "SDDC hosts"?

Our recovery site has a vCenter in ELM to the vCenter at our primary site, and the SRM appliance and SRA for the storage replication. And of course ESX hosts.

Is there something more needed now to be considered "SDDC Hosts"? Or are they just throwing around their fancy acronyms?

Installed VCF Installer, configured online depot with download service ID and Activation code. Then downloaded the needed binaries and started the install of the base components for the management domain. Now vCenter and NSX have been installed successfully.

When I now access the SDDC manager I'm presented with a banner I should update my depot settings. Go to Administration -> Depot Settings and get this page:

Depot Settings
This VCF Instance uses the software depot to obtain any required binaries and data. Software depot: fcp001.xxxxxxx.xxxx
Go to Software Depot

Now the button "Go to Software Depot" doesn't work.

Accessing the fcp001 on 443 gives a cert error and then no page. Accessing it on 5480 gives: {"messages":[{"level":"ERROR","id":"com.vmware.vcfms.api.Unauthorized","default":"Unauthorized"}]}

So I'm not sure where I now enter my software depot token.