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

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

DVS specified in the TN profile contains a special character in the name. e.g. "RegionA01-DVS7|Test"

NSX Manager logs show the following error.

var/log/proton/nsxapi.log 

[TIMESTAMP] ERROR L2HostConfigTaskExecutor2 TransportNodeAsyncServiceImpl 4934 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="MP8700" level="ERROR" subcomp="manager"] host switch apply operation failed: [invalid dvs parameter :[## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##-## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##|RegionA01-DVS7|Test|8900|########-####-####-####-############

Environment

VMware NSX

VMware NSX-T Datacenter

Cause

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

Resolution

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

 

Additional Information

Special character validation is added in VMware NSX 3.2.2 and 4.0.1.1.