While running the NSX-T Upgrade Evaluation Tool you got errors: Pre-upgrade check failed for data migration Policy URL categorization config

Products

• VMware NSX Networking

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• You are upgrading to NSX-T Version 3.2.0.1 from 3.2.0.
• You have run NSX-T Upgrade Evaluation Tool: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87379
• The tool reported the following warning seen in logical-migration.log:

2022-06-09T09:09:17.504Z WARN main UfoCorfuTableMigrator 16965 - [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" level="WARNING" subcomp="manager"] ERROR while running logical migration MappingDetails{modelName='null', migrationType=null, reason='This migration task will run for migrations from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 for Policy URL categorization config. It will not run for upgrades from 3.2.1 to Next', customMigratorClassName='com.vmware.nsx.management.migration.impl.PolicyUrlCategorizationConfigPathToUuidMigrationTask', fieldMappings=null, targetProtoName='null', requiresCustomCode='false', owner='null', apiToTest='null'}

Environment

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.x
VMware NSX-T Data Center

Cause

This issue happens when PolicyUrlCategorizationConfig and FqdnAnalysisConfig refer to stale or non-existent edge clusters.

Resolution

This is a known issue impacting NSX-T data center.
To avoid this issue, disable URL and FQDN Analysis on an edge cluster before removing the edge cluster.

Workaround:
To avoid this issue, disable URL and FQDN Analysis on an edge cluster before removing the edge cluster.
If you have encountered this issue, please open a VMware support request and refer to this KB article.