"Edge gateway xxxxx has Org VDC networks attached to it. Please delete the networks before attempting to delete the edge gateway" when deleting an Organization VDC in Cloud Director

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Attempting to delete an Organization Virtual Data Center in Cloud Director fails with an error of the form:

Edge gateway xxxxx has Org VDC networks attached to it. Please delete the networks before attempting to delete the edge gateway

• Cloud Director cannot delete an NSX-V Edge Gateway owned by the Organization VDC being deleted.
• The NSX-V Edge Gateway owned by the Organization VDC failed to enable or disable Distributed Routing in the past.

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.x

Cause

This issue can occur if Distributed Routing was not enabled or disabled successfully on the Edge Gateway to be deleted.

Resolution

On the Tenant or Provider portal, Enable and then Disable distributed routing on the Edge which the error complains about.
Once the tasks complete re-attempt the deletion of the Organization VDC or Edge in question.

Additional Information

For more information on Distributed Routing on NSX-V Edge Gateways see the Cloud Director documentation, Activate or Deactivate Distributed Routing on an Edge Gateway.