Deploying Service Insertion (SI) in NSX-T fails when no Standard vSwitch is available
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Article ID: 322503
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Products
VMware vDefend Firewall
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms: When deploying a SVM (Service Virtual Machine) for Service insertion, Service Deployment in High Availability (HA) mode, it fail's with error in the log /var/log/cm-inventory/cm-inventory.log:
ERROR http-nio-127.0.0.1-7443-exec-4 OvfDeploy - SYSTEM [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="MP40409" level="ERROR" subcomp="cm-inventory"] Ovf deploy failed for vm ServiceInsertion-NS-########-####-####-####-########7e82-1 on vc 192.168.110.10 with error 'Host did not have any virtual network defined.'
Note: Above 'ServiceInsertion-NS-########-####-####-####-########7e82-1' will be unique per SVM deployment. The ESXi host does not have a standard vSwitch.
Environment
VMware NSX-T Data Center
Cause
When deploying service insertion in HA mode, there needs to be a standard vSwitch on the host so the SVM HA NIC's can connect to it.
Resolution
This is a known issue affecting NSX-T Data Center.
Workaround:
Create a standard vSwitch with "VM Network" portgroup on the host's.