DLR fails to resolve mac addresses of VMs on differents ESXi hots if uplinks on vDS are named in Japanese.
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DLR fails to resolve mac addresses of VMs on differents ESXi hots if uplinks on vDS are named in Japanese.

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Article ID: 327349

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Products

VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
  • Fail to ping between VMs on different ESXi hosts via DLR.
  • "net-vdr -C -l" command shows that uplinks' names have non-English characters:
DvsName VdrPort NumLifs VdrVmac
------- ------- ------- -------
DSwitch-Mgmt vdrPort 2 02:50:56:56:44:52
    Vdr Switch Port: 67108875
    Teaming Policy: SrcPortId Hashing
    Uplink : アップリンク 2(67108869): 00:50:56:e7:47:50(Non-team member) 
    Uplink : アップリンク 1(67108866): 00:50:56:e7:64:d4(Non-team member)
  • esxtop shows that vdr-vdrPort is void:
   PORT-ID USED-BY TEAM-PNIC DNAME PKTTX/s MbTX/s PSZTX PKTRX/s MbRX/s PSZRX %DRPTX %DRPRX
  67108865 Management n/a DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
  67108866 vmk0 vmnic1 DvsPortset-1 1.94 0.00 147.00 0.39 0.00 76.00 0.00 0.00
  67108867 vmnic1 - DvsPortset-1 1.94 0.00 147.00 11.65 0.01 158.00 0.00 0.00
  67108868 Shadow of vmnic1 n/a DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
  67108869 vmnic0 - DvsPortset-1 1.17 0.00 238.00 12.43 0.01 149.00 0.00 0.00
  67108870 Shadow of vmnic0 n/a DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
  67108872 vmk1 vmnic0 DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
  67108873 vdr-vdrPort void DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00


Cause

NSX Manager cannot handle with Japanese characters when sending vxlan configurations to ESXi hosts.

Resolution

This issue is fixed in NSX 6.4.2.

Workaround:
Create uplinks with English characters.