Network disruption when IDPS is enabled

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• NSX-T Data Center 3.2.1
• Intermittent network disruption when IDPS is enabled
• ESX logs show the IDPS service crashed, /var/run/logs

2022-06-01T22:25:14.510Z cpu5:8477707)UserDump: 2635: W#04: Dumping cartel 8477657 (from world 8477707) to file /var/core/nsx-idps-zdump.003

Environment

VMware NSX-T Data Center
VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.x

Cause

The IDPS service crahses due to memory exhaustion, this issue is under investigation.

Resolution

This is a known issue impacting IDPS.

Additional Information

Please also see NSX-T IDPS generates Critical alarm: NSX-IDPS engine is down