vSphere with Tanzu

Creating a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster fails. In vCenter server, the resource pool gets created under the namespace resource pool. However, the control/worker vms do not get created. The OVF deployment starts but fails and is in a constant loop with the error, “Failed to deploy OVF package” Looking at the vpxd logs in vCenter Server, the error was: info vpxd[63733] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=62236dfd] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR lro-43350730 -- task-637327 -- vim....

If you run into any issue where the config status is stuck in “configuring” state, one of the first things to check is the wcpsvc logs on the vCenter appliance here: /var/log/vmware/wcp/wcpsvc.log Interestingly I ran into an issue where the logs were complaining about authorization. You probably will see the following events in a loop: 2021-05-30T11:48:11.077Z error wcp [kubelifecycle/spherelet.go:923] [opID=domain-c8-host-28] **Failed to get Kubernetes cluster node list: Unauthorized** 2021-05-30T11:48:11.078Z error wcp [kubelifecycle/node\_controller....