When configuring DHCP in NSX for vSphere error "Invalid huge ip-range" is displayed

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

Creating a large IP pool, fails with an error:
 "Invalid huge ip-range: x.x.x.x-x.x.x.x. A valid range contains no more than 65535 IPs. To configure huge range, please set allowHugeRange to true."

Environment

VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4.x

Cause

This is an expected behavior to avoid exhausting a memory resource for NSX Edge.

Resolution

This is an expected behavior to avoid exhausting a memory resource for NSX Edge.

Do not use DHCP pool with over 65535 IP addresses in the range.