Adding a host to vDS Distributed Switch fails with error: Create DVSwitch failed with the following error message: Unable to Create Proxy DVS ; Status(bad0005)= Already exists

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• Adding a host to vDS fails
• In the vCenter Server task bar, you see the error:
  vDS operation failed on host xx.xx.xx.xx, An error occurred during host configuration. got (vim.fault.PlatformConfigFault) exception.
  
  
• hostd reports the error:
  Create DVSwitch failed with the following error message: Unable to Create Proxy DVS ; Status(bad0005)= Already exists
  
  
• Running net-dvs command under /etc/vmware returns:
  failed to get config data: Not initialized
• When you run the esxcfg-vswitch -l command, you see that there are no entries related to the dvSwitch

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.X
VMware vSphere ESXi 8.X

Cause

This issue occurs because the vDS database has a stale entry from an earlier failed attempt.

Resolution

If you believe you have encountered this issue, please open a support case with Broadcom Support and refer to this KB article.

For more information, see Creating and managing Broadcom support cases.