Symptoms:
- The host preparation for NSX-T fails with the below error in NSX UI:
Notification: - The operation creating a transport node from the discovered node failed: General error.
Configure NSX Dialog: - General error (Error code: 100)
- There are no NSX VIBs present on the ESXi host due to the NSX installation not starting, running the below command doesn't return an output:
[root@esxi:~] esxcli software vib list | grep 'nsx'
- We see the following messages in the NSX-T manager log: /var/log/proton/nsxapi.log
INFO http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-28 TransportNodeServiceImpl 89234 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" reqId="65120c2a-4a90-11ee-af84-0050569d8fcf" subcomp="manager" username="admin"] For DVS vSwitch1 found following UplinkKey->UplinkValue {11=Uplink 2, 10=Uplink 1}
INFO http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-28 TransportNodeServiceImpl 89234 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" reqId="905c6adb-fb16-4055-b79d-1b36fd8592c0" subcomp="manager" username="admin"] Found pnic vmnic0 associated with uplink Uplink 1 on DVS vSwitch1
INFO http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-21 VcResourceServiceImpl 10780 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" reqId="65120c2a-4a90-11ee-af84-0050569d8fcf" subcomp="manager" username="admin"] VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch found moref dvs-42
WARN http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-21 VcResourceServiceImpl 10780 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" level="WARNING" reqId="a36d8701-3664-4ce3-a2a3-fc1b1316327d" subcomp="manager" username="admin"] Unable to fetch DVS switch uuid xx xx xx xx 27 0b 04 d1-53 0f e7 06 94 f5 8f d4
java.lang.NullPointerException: null