Virtual machine lose ping from outside after migrating from VLAN to bridge VXLAN

Products

• VMware NSX Networking

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Virtual machine lose ping from outside after migrating from VLAN to bridge VXLAN.
• Virtual machine affected are linux based.
  

Environment

VMware NSX for vSphere 6.3.x
VMware NSX for vSphere 6.2.x

Resolution

This issue is resolved in:

• VMware NSX for vSphere 6.2.8, available at VMware Downloads.
  
• VMware NSX for vSphere 6.3.2, available at VMware Downloads.

To work around this issue if you do not want to upgrade , use one of these options:

Workaround 1

1. Migrate the virtual machine to the DLR host first without changing network
2. Change networking on the virtual machine from VLAN to bridged VLAN
3. Migrated to any host in the transport zone.

Workaround 2

Edit the following virtual machine settings:

1. Disconnect the vNIC and Save.
2. Change the vNIC from VLAN to VXLAN and Save.
3. Connect the vNIC and save, traffic works because disconnect and connect would trigger GARP.