NSX-T host preparation fails with error: "Host switch apply operation failed: [invalid dvs parameter]"

Products

• VMware NSX Networking

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• DVS specified in the TN profile contains a special character in the name. e.g. "RegionA01-DVS7|Test"
• nsxapi.log shows the following error

 

2022-04-14T10:11:58.593Z ERROR L2HostConfigTaskExecutor2 TransportNodeAsyncServiceImpl 4934 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="MP8700" level="ERROR" subcomp="manager"] host switch apply operation failed: [invalid dvs parameter :[50 1d 00 40 3f c0 6b 24-a0 ec d8 07 9a 83 48 44|RegionA01-DVS7|Test|8900|e6bb76b5-c15f-474f-b3ef-72fd2cd80934

Environment

VMware NSX-T Data Center

Cause

NSX-T does not support the use of special characters in the DVS name

Resolution

There is currently no fix for this issue

Workaround:

Remove all special characters from DVS name and attempt the host preparation again