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HCL Offline Download for VMware Cloud Foundation

If the
SDDC Manager appliance
 does not have access to an online or offline depot, you can use the Bundle Transfer Utility to manually download the HCL file from the depot on your local computer and then upload it to the
SDDC Manager appliance
.
  • A Windows or Linux computer with internet connectivity (either directly or through a proxy) for downloading the HCL. To upload the HCL file from a Windows computer, you must have OpenSSL installed and configured.
  • Configure TCP keepalive in your SSH client to prevent socket connection timeouts when using the Bundle Transfer Utility for long-running operations.
The Bundle Transfer Utility is the only supported method for downloading HCL. Do not use third-party tools or other methods to download HCL.
If the computer with internet access can only access the internet using a proxy server, use the following options when downloading the HCL:
Option
Description
--proxyServer, --ps
Provide the proxy server FQDN and port.
For example:
--proxyServer proxy.example.com:3128
.
--proxyHttps
Add this option if the proxy server uses HTTPs.
--proxyUser
For a proxy server that requires authentication, enter the user name.
--proxyPasswordFile
For a proxy server that requires authentication, enter the path to a file where the password for proxy authentication is stored. The file content is used as the proxy password.
For example,
--proxyPasswordFile ../../password.txt
.
Example that combines the options: 
./lcm-bundle-transfer-util --vsanHclDownload --outputDirectory output-directory --proxyServer proxy.example.com:3128 --proxyUser vmwuser --proxyPasswordFile ../../password.txt --proxyHttps
  1. Download the most recent version of the Bundle Transfer Utility on a computer with internet access.
    1. Log in to the Broadcom Support Portal and browse to
      My Downloads
      VMware Cloud Foundation
      .
    2. Click the version of
      VMware Cloud Foundation
       to which you are upgrading.
    3. Click
      Drivers & Tools
      .
    4. Click the download icon for the Bundle Transfer Utility.
  2. Extract
    lcm-tools-prod.tar.gz
    .
  3. Navigate to the
    lcm-tools-prod/bin/
     and confirm that you have execute permission on all folders.
  4. Copy the bundle transfer utility to a computer with access to the
    SDDC Manager appliance
     and then copy the bundle transfer utility to the
    SDDC Manager appliance
    .
    1. SSH in to the
      SDDC Manager appliance
       using the
      vcf
       user account.
    2. Enter
      su
       to switch to the root user.
    3. Create the
      lcm-tools
       directory.
      mkdir /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-tools
      If the
      /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-tools
       directory already exists with an older version of the Bundle Transfer Utility, you need to delete contents of the existing directory before proceeding.
    4. Copy the Bundle Transfer Utility file (
      lcm-tools-prod.tar.gz
      ) that you downloaded in step 1 to the
      /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-tools
       directory.
    5. Extract the contents of
      lcm-tools-prod.tar.gz
      .
      tar -xvf lcm-tools-prod.tar.gz
    6. Set the permissions for the
      lcm-tools
       directory.
      cd /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/
      chown vcf_lcm:vcf -R lcm-tools
      chmod 750 -R lcm-tools
  5. On the computer with internet access, download the HCL file. 
    ./lcm-bundle-transfer-util --vsanHclDownload --outputDirectory output-directory
    It can also be downloaded to the default path:
    ./lcm-bundle-transfer-util --vsanHclDownload
  6. Copy the HCL file to the
    SDDC Manager appliance
    .
  7. From the
    SDDC Manager appliance
    , use the Bundle Transfer Utility to upload the HCL file.
    ./lcm-bundle-transfer-util --vsanHclUpload --inputDirectory
    hcl-file-path
    --sddcMgrFqdn
    sddc-manager-fqdn
    --sddcMgrUser
    user
    hcl-file-path
    Path from where HCL file should be picked up to upload. e.g /root/testdownload/vsan/hcl/all.json. If not given default will be taken. (
    /root/PROD2/vsan/hcl/all.json
    )
    sddc-manager-fqdn
    SDDC Manager FQDN. If not given default will be taken.
    user
    SDDC Manager user. After this, the tool will prompt for the user password.

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