We have a problem when trying to deploy vRA6.2 distributed install with F5 loadbalancer. The issue seems to be with load balancer. When we power up the first appliance, After 10 minutes all services are listed as registered (which is the usual normal behaviour) however, when we change the host settings to point to the Loadbalancer VIP FQDN, most of the services fail to start with below error from catalina.out
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2015-03-30 14:03:01,687 vcac: [component="cafe:catalog" priority="INFO" thread="taskScheduler-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:106 - Retrying request
2015-03-30 14:03:01,710 vcac: [component="cafe:catalog" priority="WARN" thread="taskScheduler-1" tenant=""] com.vmware.vcac.platform.rest.client.support.RetriableOperation.call:74 - Exception handled during retry operation with message: I/O error on GET request for "https://mycloud.tedata.net/component-registry/endpoints/types/sso":Connection reset; nested exception is java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
2015-03-30 14:03:01,710 vcac: [component="cafe:catalog" priority="INFO" thread="taskScheduler-1" tenant=""] com.vmware.vcac.platform.rest.client.support.RetriableOperation.call:76 - Retries left: [10]. Sleeping for [20] seconds before the next retry attempt.
2015-03-30 14:03:03,036 vcac: [component="cafe:component-registry" priority="INFO" thread="eventPublisherExecutor-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:93 - I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
2015-03-30 14:03:03,036 vcac: [component="cafe:component-registry" priority="INFO" thread="eventPublisherExecutor-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:106 - Retrying request
2015-03-30 14:03:03,045 vcac: [component="cafe:component-registry" priority="INFO" thread="eventPublisherExecutor-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:93 - I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
2015-03-30 14:03:03,045 vcac: [component="cafe:component-registry" priority="INFO" thread="eventPublisherExecutor-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:106 - Retrying request
2015-03-30 14:03:03,053 vcac: [component="cafe:component-registry" priority="INFO" thread="eventPublisherExecutor-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:93 - I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
2015-03-30 14:03:03,054 vcac: [component="cafe:component-registry" priority="INFO" thread="eventPublisherExecutor-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:106 - Retrying request
2015-03-30 14:03:03,062 vcac: [component="cafe:component-registry" priority="WARN" thread="eventPublisherExecutor-1" tenant=""] com.vmware.vcac.platform.rest.client.support.RetriableOperation.call:74 - Exception handled during retry operation with message: I/O error on GET request for "https://mycloud.tedata.net/component-registry/endpoints/types/sso":Connection reset; nested exception is java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
2015-03-30 14:03:03,062 vcac: [component="cafe:component-registry" priority="INFO" thread="eventPublisherExecutor-1" tenant=""] com.vmware.vcac.platform.rest.client.support.RetriableOperation.call:76 - Retries left: [39]. Sleeping for [20] seconds before the next retry attempt.
2015-03-30 14:03:06,355 vcac: [component="cafe:shell" priority="INFO" thread="org.springframework.scheduling.config.TaskExecutorFactoryBean#321ff047-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:93 - I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
2015-03-30 14:03:06,356 vcac: [component="cafe:shell" priority="INFO" thread="org.springframework.scheduling.config.TaskExecutorFactoryBean#321ff047-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:106 - Retrying request
2015-03-30 14:03:06,365 vcac: [component="cafe:shell" priority="INFO" thread="org.springframework.scheduling.config.TaskExecutorFactoryBean#321ff047-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:93 - I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
2015-03-30 14:03:06,366 vcac: [component="cafe:shell" priority="INFO" thread="org.springframework.scheduling.config.TaskExecutorFactoryBean#321ff047-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:106 - Retrying request
2015-03-30 14:03:06,374 vcac: [component="cafe:shell" priority="INFO" thread="org.springframework.scheduling.config.TaskExecutorFactoryBean#321ff047-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:93 - I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
2015-03-30 14:03:06,375 vcac: [component="cafe:shell" priority="INFO" thread="org.springframework.scheduling.config.TaskExecutorFactoryBean#321ff047-1" tenant=""] org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute:106 - Retrying request
2015-03-30 14:03:06,420 vcac: [component="cafe:shell" priority="ERROR" thread="org.springframework.scheduling.config.TaskExecutorFactoryBean#321ff047-1" tenant=""] com.vmware.vcac.core.service.registry.ServiceRegistryManager.register:123 -
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Certificates are loaded properly on the loadbalancer VIP and all configurations are followed as per https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vCloud/VMW-vRealize-Automation-61-Deployment-Guide-HA.pdf
While i have not done the F5 configurations myself, I trust they followed the procedures, Anyone has experienced the same problem before?