management cluster creation fails on vsphere

[jschmidbauer]

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Environment:

• EKS Anywhere Release:
• EKS Distro Release:

I've gone through the https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/docs/getting-started/vsphere/overview/ here but I'm getting a timeout upon creating my management cluster in vsphere.

Command used:
eksctl anywhere create cluster -f eksa-mgmt-cluster.yaml

Error recieved:

collecting management cluster diagnostics
⏳ Collecting support bundle from cluster, this can take a while        {"cluster": "bootstrap-cluster", "bundle": "mgmt/generated/bootstrap-cluster-2025-03-04T14:06:47-06:00-bundle.yaml", "since": 1741108007766198857, "kubeconfig": "mgmt/generated/mgmt.kind.kubeconfig"}
Support bundle archive created  {"path": "support-bundle-2025-03-04T20_06_49.tar.gz"}
Analyzing support bundle        {"bundle": "mgmt/generated/bootstrap-cluster-2025-03-04T14:06:47-06:00-bundle.yaml", "archive": "support-bundle-2025-03-04T20_06_49.tar.gz"}
Analysis output generated       {"path": "mgmt/generated/bootstrap-cluster-2025-03-04T14:07:23-06:00-analysis.yaml"}
Error: waiting for cluster's control plane to be ready: cluster condition ControlPlaneReady is False: Scaling up control plane nodes, 3 expected (1 actual)

Info collection:

[root@hdc-m-eks-admin01 ~]# eksctl version
0.201.0
[root@hdc-m-eks-admin01 ~]# eksctl anywhere version
Version: v0.21.1
Release Manifest URL: https://anywhere-assets.eks.amazonaws.com/releases/eks-a/manifest.yaml
Bundle Manifest URL: https://anywhere-assets.eks.amazonaws.com/releases/bundles/83/manifest.yaml
[root@hdc-m-eks-admin01 ~]#

Attached is the screenshot of the VM's created during the creation process, the yaml and the support bundle logs. Changed yaml .txt since it was allowed as an upload type.

support-bundle.zip

mgmt-cluster.txt