VDS Operation failed errors after moving a host to Non-NSX cluster in NSX 6.3.x

Products

• VMware NSX
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
In NSX for vSphere 6.3.x environment, after moving an ESXi host in Maintenance mode from one cluster to another non-NSX cluster:

• Host gets moved successfully.
• you see errors similar to:

vDS operation failed on host xx, Received SOAP response fault from [<csp:00007fd49c1c1860,TCP:xx.xx.xx.xx:443>]:invokeHostTransactionCall

Environment

VMware NSX for vSphere 6.3.x

Cause

This issue occurs because of reboot-less upgrade feature on NSX for vSphere 6.3.x, while trying to clear the com.vmware.netoverlay.layer0 property while the datapath still holds references.

Resolution

There is no functionality impactt to the system and these error messages can safely be ignored.