Update or fresh installation with OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.24 or 4.8 may fail with networking issues on vSphere

Issue

• We have tried to upgrade to OCP 4.8.5 and ended up into inaccessible api. The openshift-apiserver co reported the below error.

  $ oc describe co openshift-apiserver
  [...]
  Status:
    Conditions:
      Last Transition Time:  2021-08-23T07:42:43Z
      Message:               All is well
      Reason:                AsExpected
      Status:                False
      Type:                  Degraded
      Last Transition Time:  2021-08-23T07:23:28Z
      Message:               All is well
      Reason:                AsExpected
      Status:                False
      Type:                  Progressing
      Last Transition Time:  2021-08-23T07:42:57Z
      Message:               APIServicesAvailable: "image.openshift.io.v1" is not ready: an attempt failed with statusCode = 503, err = the server is currently unable to handle the request
  APIServicesAvailable: "route.openshift.io.v1" is not ready: an attempt failed with statusCode = 503, err = the server is currently unable to handle the request
  APIServicesAvailable: "template.openshift.io.v1" is not ready: an attempt failed with statusCode = 503, err = the server is currently unable to handle the request
      Reason:                APIServices_Error
      Status:                False
      Type:                  Available
      Last Transition Time:  2021-02-15T16:53:48Z
      Message:               All is well