Those who are experienced with VCF might have seen this situation in past where a SDDC Bringup task fails because of an incorrect parameter in the json/xls file used for bringup.
Cloud Builder UI don’t provides a mechanism to go back and change the input file with correct values and retry bringup with modified file. Don’t loose heart if you are caught in this situation as it is possible to do this via API and in this post I will walk through steps of doing so.
By default cloud builder places the sddc-bringup json in /opt/vmware/sddc-support/cloud_admin_tools/Resources/vcf-ems/ directory by name vcf-ems.json.
Note: Even if you are using xls to feed cloud builder, it is internally converted in json file.
You can either modify this json directly and fix the incorrect value that was supplied in your xls/json file or you can generate a new json for bringup.
Step 1: Login to cloud builder vm via ssh and switch to root user.… Read More