VCF Automation DNS precheck fails

When I first installed VCF in the lab, I decided to skip Automation for now so that I could read up on it a bit. Today, I was trying to install it through VCF Operations in the lifecycle tab, but the pre-checks kept failing with a pretty ambiguous error message. When testing DNS resolution, for the record that was mentioned, it resolved fine on my jumphost and laptop. So I figured the issue must be with DNS resolution on the Fleet manager appliance (ex-SDDC manager). I connected to the fleet manager appliance and tested DNS resolution there. ...

13 November, 2025 · 2 min · Maarten Van Driessen