VCF Federation Member Issue

[sghose0007]

Hi All,

Having issues with inviting a member to join the federation. It just display a blank page where it needs to add the FQDN of the second member

[scott28tt]

Moderator: Thread moved to the VCF area.

[abhilashhb]

What version of VCF are you using?

How many instances of VCF d you have? Also, have you met this pre-req?

You must be a controller in the federation and have the FQDN of the member you are inviting.

[sghose0007]

VCF 4.0

2 Instances of VCF

Yes I am the controller in the federation

I have the FQDN of the member I am inviting

But the page doesn't display the option to enter the FQDN

I have attached the screenshot

Also opened a case with VMware on the same..

[abhilashhb]

Have you tried using different browsers?

How about the certificate pre-req that is listed on the documentation: Create a Federation? Have you taken care of that?

[sghose0007]

Yes tried different browsers..

All done on the certificate pre-req part..

Its something weird

Even VMware Support is taking a long time to come back on the issue, they collected the logs..

[tsangha]

Hi sghose0007​,

Were you able to resolve this issue with GSS?

In addition, did you try using the API to create/join the federation?

For example you could use curl to trigger the creation of the federation as per below:

curl 'https://sddc-manager.sfo01.rainpole.local/v1/sddc-federation' -i -X PUT \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer etYWR....' \
  -d '{
  "federationName" : "New Federation",
  "memberJoinDetail" : {
  "role" : "CONTROLLER",
  "fqdn" : "sddc-manager-1.vrack.vsphere.local",
  "siteType" : "DATACENTER",
  "siteName" : "Palo Alto Epic Center",
  "country" : "USA",
  "state" : "California",
  "city" : "Palo Alto",
  "coordinate" : {
  "longitude" : -122.838,
  "latitude" : 37.286
  }
  }
}'

You will need to use token authentication which is documented on the code website as well.

Please let us know how you progress.

[sghose0007]

Tried using API call didn't help

[sghose0007 · Accepted solution]

Finally the issue is fixed by running the below commands

1. Change the hostname, etc/hosts file to lowercase also updated the database with the lowercase fqdn

   2. Find the ID- psql -h localhost -U postgres -d platform -c "select id, vm_hostname, vm_name from sddc_manager_controller;"

      Update the database with the ID value to lowercase - psql -h localhost -U postgres -d platform -c "update sddc_manager_controller set vm_hostname = lower(vm_hostname), vm_name         = lower(vm_name) where id = '181c25a1-0fd4-43fc-92ea-f0e1e3fb4782';"

  3. Initiated the Federation creation and joined successfully..

[Sherrers]

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