Deletion of the service attachment fails on NSX-T

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• You're running NSX-T version prior to 3.2.1.
• You're attempting to delete service insertion attachments and it fails.
• You see the below entries in NSX Manager /var/log/proton/nsxapi.log:

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS <nsx-mnagaer-fqdn> NSX 27848 SYSTEM [nsx@6876 audit="true" comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" subcomp="manager"] UserName:'admin' ModuleName:'SERVICE' Operation:'DELETE@/api/v1/serviceinsertion/service-attachments/<service-attchment-uuid>' Operation status: 'failure' Error: There are InstanceEndpoints associated with ServiceAttachment <service-attchment-uuid>. Delete the InstanceEndpoint/s before attempting ServiceAttachment delete.

Environment

VMware NSX-T Data Center

Cause

This issue occurs when attempting to delete Service insertion entities which still have dependencies.

Resolution

This issue is resolved in VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2.1

Workaround:
Please review the configuration in the UI, System > Service Deployments > Deployments and System > Service Deployments > Service Instances and remove any dependencies, then attempt to remove the service attachment.

If this is still failing, please open a support request with Broadcom Support and refer to this KB article.