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fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

  • 1.  fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Posted Jan 20, 2026 09:05 PM

    no matter what i do i keep getting this error:-

    i have tried offline, online, different version's with no luck



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  • 2.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jan 20, 2026 09:06 PM

    9.0.2 has been released today so the current Holodeck does not yet support its deployment. We will be validating 9.0.2 on Holodeck and releasing a new version which will support 9.0.2 deployment.

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  • 3.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Posted Jan 21, 2026 07:16 AM

    hi thank you for that,

    i'm now trying to deploy 9.0.0.0 and keep getting this error:-

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  • 4.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jan 27, 2026 05:19 AM

    In the same powershell session when the error occurs, run $Error | Select * to get more details about the error. The error.log file currently only logs networking setup related errors and not deployment related errors

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  • 5.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Posted Feb 17, 2026 01:35 PM
    Edited by Joel Nordsving Feb 17, 2026 01:36 PM

    Any thoughts on when Holodeck 9.0.2.0 will be released?  we also are experiencing deployment issues with version 9.0.1.0, it's continuing to request NSX images for 9.0.2.0 during deployment within VCF Installer. - we've not changed our version of the 2 deployment files required. The processed seemed to break after VCF Installer is now seeing 9.0.2.0 in the available online depot, although the Holodeck script is properly downloading version 9.0.1.0.

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  • 6.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Posted Feb 17, 2026 06:04 PM
    Hi,

    I now get this:-[cid:c055cf92-e0f8-4409-8270-385c49044d5b]
    But the depot is connected and everything is downloaded:-
    [cid:6eb4df7d-6b0b-485c-85c1-e662b99d1203]
    Kind regards

    Gary




  • 7.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 17, 2026 10:42 PM

    Holodeck 9.0.2 is now available: https://vmware.github.io/Holodeck/release_notes/#holodeck-902-maintenance-release

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  • 8.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Posted Mar 03, 2026 12:43 PM

    Hi thank you for that,

    I've now tried to deploy it using 9.0.2.0 and get this error:-

    i can ping from the SDDC to all the host via ip address, when i try and use the hostname this is what i get:-

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  • 9.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 03, 2026 09:46 PM

    Can you run nslookup esx-01a.site-a.vcf.lab from vcf installer and see if you still get connection refused?

    If yes, run the same from holorouter. If still the same, run kubectl get pods and check if dnsmasq pod is running. 

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  • 10.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Posted Mar 05, 2026 09:47 PM

    I'm running into the same issue using version 9.0.2.0 and 9.0.1.0. It seems like there is an error in the dnsmasq config, screenshots are from 9.0.2.0:

    ConfigMap:

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  • 11.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 05, 2026 10:53 PM

    Edit the /holodeck-runtime/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_configmap.yaml file and change the line server=1.1.1.1#cloudflare-dns.com to server=1.1.1.1

    Then run the following commands -
    kubectl apply -f /holodeck-runtime/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_configmap.yaml
    kubectl delete -f /holodeck-runtime/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_deployment.yaml
    kubectl apply -f /holodeck-runtime/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_deployment.yaml

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  • 12.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Posted Mar 06, 2026 06:17 AM

    Amazing thank you so much for this :-) it worked perfectly

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  • 13.  RE: fail to deploy vcf 9.0.2.0

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 06, 2026 07:52 AM

    Thanks for confirming. This has been added to the list of known issues in the documentation: https://vmware.github.io/Holodeck/release_notes/#known-issues

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