Symptoms:
On environments where there are DLR layer 2 bridges the netcpa process of ESXi hosts may experience issues.
On the Fabric status of the dashboard, Host Communication Channel Status may show as down.
Control plane agent to controller may show as down on Host Preparation Tab.
- You may see the following log entries on the vmkernel.log of the affected ESXi host:
2018-11-29T08:52:01.624Z cpu6:11936471)WARNING: vdrb: VdrCpVdrBridgeNetworkFdbUpdate:3792: CP:[I:0x2714] Bridge Network FDB Update: Failed to post message status: Limit exceeded
- You may see the following on the syslog of the affected ESXi host:
2019-06-01T23:24:39.055Z esxi_host_fqdn.com netcpa: error netcpa[26D2221700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Connection error with controller 192.168.10.1:0 on source port 0, triggering reconnect
2019-06-01T23:24:43.726Z esxi_host_fqdn.com netcpa: error netcpa[26D2221700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Connection error with controller 192.168.10.1:0 on source port 0, triggering reconnect
2019-06-01T23:24:44.902Z esxi_host_fqdn.com netcpa: error netcpa[26D2221700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Connection error with controller 192.168.10.1:0 on source port 0, triggering reconnect
Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.