The installer is not validating the datacenters listed under vcenters for a zonal installation. The datacenters in the failure domain topology, however, are validated. If there is an invalid datacenter in vcenters, but not in the failure domain topology, the cluster will fail to continue to install but will eventually fail.

1. Configure an invalid datacenter in vcenters, but not in failure domain topology.
2. Perform an installation.
3.

installation times out waiting for the storage operator

installation should fail in validation

Example of bad install-config.yaml

platform:
  vsphere: 
    apiVIPs:
    - 192.168.12.2
    ingressVIPs:
    - 192.168.12.3
    failureDomains: 
    - name: fd-1
      region: us-west
      server: ibmvcenter.vmc-ci.devcluster.openshift.com
      topology:
        computeCluster: "/datacenter-2/host/vcs-mdcnc-workload-4"
        datacenter: datacenter-2
        datastore: "/datacenter-2/datastore/mdcnc-ds-4"
        networks:
        - ocp-ci-seg-12
      zone: us-west-1a
    - name: fd-2
      region: us-east
      server: ibmvcenter.vmc-ci.devcluster.openshift.com
      topology:
        computeCluster: "/IBMCloud/host/vcs-mdcnc-workload-1"
        datacenter: IBMCloud
        datastore: "/IBMCloud/datastore/mdcnc-ds-1"
        networks:
        - ocp-ci-seg-12
      zone: us-east-1a
    - name: fd-3
      region: us-east
      server: ibmvcenter.vmc-ci.devcluster.openshift.com
      topology:
        computeCluster: "/IBMCloud/host/vcs-mdcnc-workload-2"
        datacenter: IBMCloud
        datastore: "/IBMCloud/datastore/mdcnc-ds-2"
        networks:
        - ocp-ci-seg-12
      zone: us-east-1b
    - name: fd-4
      region: us-east
      server: ibmvcenter.vmc-ci.devcluster.openshift.com
      topology:
        computeCluster: "/IBMCloud/host/vcs-mdcnc-workload-3"
        datacenter: IBMCloud
        datastore: "/IBMCloud/datastore/mdcnc-ds-3"
        networks:
        - ocp-ci-seg-12
      zone: us-east-1c            
    vcenters:
    - datacenters:
      - IBMCloud
      - datacenter2
      password: "************"
      port: 443
      server: ibmvcenter.vmc-ci.devcluster.openshift.com
      user: *************