In NSX-T Data Center when creating or editing gateways you receive error: Error "[IDAS0] uuid has no free ids. (Error code: 400)"

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• You are using NSX gateways, Tier 1 and/or Tier 0.
• When creating or editing the gateways, you receive the error:

• In the NSX manager's /var/log/syslog you will see error as below: 

2022-12-22T20:35:00.995Z <nsx-manager-FQDN/IP> NSX 4842 - [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="IDAS0" level="ERROR" subcomp="manager"] [IDAS0] Pool uuid {#012 left: #####################012 right: ####################012}#012 has no free ids

• This can occur when adding gateway firewall rules also.

Environment

VMware NSX-T Data Center
VMware NSX

Cause

• IDAS (ID Allocation Service) has a range of 1 billion UUIDs available to use when creating Gateway firewall rules.
• These ID's are not reused when the Gateway firewall rule is deleted.
• This Error is generated when the range is exhausted.

Resolution

This is a known issue impacting VMware NSX and VMware NSX-T Data Center.

Workaround:
If you believe you have encountered this issue, please open a Broadcom support request and refer to this KB.