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Quick Tip - No space left on device when upgrading VCF Operations using VCF Operations Fleet Manager to VCF 9.0.2

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Yesterday, I began upgrading my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment from version 9.0.1 to the latest 9.0.2 release. After successfully upgrading VCF Operations Fleet Manager, I then proceeded to upgrade VCF Operations, which includes running a pre-validation to ensure everything was okay before we can proceed.


As you can see from the screenshot above, I ran into the following error: "No space left on device" which was pretty vague, but I figured it had to do with my VCF Operations instance, since I was attempting to upgrade it ...

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Improved Workaround for NSX Edge Deployment & Upgrade to VCF 9.0.2 running AMD Ryzen CPUs

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If you are using an AMD Ryzen (Consumer) CPU for your VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) lab environment, you have most likely have applied one of the required workarounds for either installing an NSX Edge (HERE) or upgrading an NSX Edge (HERE).

For those planning to install or upgrade to the latest VCF 9.0.2 patch release, which was just released today, you may come across this issue as shown in the screenshot below when attempting an NSX Edge upgrade.


While I have yet to run through the VCF 9.0.2 upgrade myself, a similar configuration file tweak from within the NSX Edge VM will be required. A colleague recently shared a more optimal trick for bypassing the non-supported AMD processor check, which would be simpler to implement for lab environments.

Disclaimer: This is not officially supported by Broadcom, please use at your own risk.

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Quick Tip - Correlating VCF Component to Bundle ID/Name

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A VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) release consists of a collection of VCF components that is categorized as either an installation or patch/upgrade file. In VCF 4.x/5.x, a VCF component would contain two different identifiers, a UUID as well as something called a Bundle ID (e.g. bundle-XXX where XXX is some numeric number). In VCF 9.x, the old Bundle ID format is no longer used and simply converges with using the UUID, uniquely identifying a given VCF component.

When a customer downloads a VCF release, they only need to deal with the VCF release version (e.g. 5.2.1.0 or 9.0.1.0) and not the individual bundle IDs. With that said, if you need to download a specific VCF component, especially when using the VCF Download Tool (VCFDT), then it would helpful to understand the specific VCF component ID whether this is for VCF 4.x/5.x or VCF 9.x

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