In vRNI an environment, NSX Host VIB upgrade fails

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

This article provides workaround steps to recover from the host upgrade failure and complete host upgrade.

Symptoms:

• VIB upgrade on some of the hosts fails.
   

• Following errors observed in "Host Preparation" tab:

"Agent VIB module cannot be detected on the host. This may be due to a pending reboot on the host due to earlier operation, or the host may not be of supported version (Please check on VMware Product Interoperability Matrices). Please check for any errors on VCenter console or host that may be causing this. ..."
 

• In esxupdate.log, the following errors are observed:

Reconfig DVS method fault when restore property: [(vim.fault.PlatformConfigFault) {\n dynamicType = <unset>,\n dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],\n msg = \'An error occurred during host configuration.\',\n faultCause = <unset>,\n faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [\n (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) {\n dynamicType = <unset>,\n dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],\n key = \'com.vmware.esx.hostctl.default\',\n arg = (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) [\n (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {\n dynamicType = <uns
esxupdate: et>,\n dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],\n key = \'reason\',\n value = \'Unable to set DVS vendor data com.vmware.netoverlay.layer0: Status(bad0005)= Already exists\'\n }\n ],\n message = \'Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to set DVS vendor data com.vmware.netoverlay.layer0: Status(bad0005)= Already exists\'\n }\n ],\n text = \'\'\n}]\

Environment

VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.x

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting VMware NSX from vSphere 6.4.5.

Workaround:
1. Stop vRNI
2. Reboot the affected hosts.
3. Goto vCenter -> Networking & Security -> Installation & Upgrade -> Host Preparation tab and perform Resolve on the hosts.
4. Start vRNI