Recommission host failing with an error 'Failed to allocate IPs from networks with error'

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Recommission host failing with an error 'Failed to allocate IPs from networks with error'

Host was decommissioned due to hardware failure, reimaged and attempt was made to re-add to same IP configuration.

 

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x

Cause

Information can be gathered from logs:

domainmanager.log

[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] ERROR [vcf_dm,50bfa8598976449f,38a0] [c.v.e.s.c.s.a.n.NetworkPoolAdapterImpl,dm-exec-13] Error occurred fetching all the networks from the network pool ########-####-####-####-9650ff67187c

[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] DEBUG [vcf_dm,50bfa8598976449f,38a0] [c.v.e.s.c.s.utils.IpAllocationUtil,dm-exec-13] ESXi Host <ESXiHostname.domain> does not have an allocated IP for network type VMOTION

[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] WARN [vcf_dm,50bfa8598976449f,38a0] [c.v.e.s.c.s.a.n.NetworkPoolAdapterImpl,dm-exec-13] There are no IP addresses blocked for network ########-####-####-####-5de85c262059.

[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] INFO [vcf_dm,50bfa8598976449f,38a0] [c.v.e.s.c.s.a.n.NetworkPoolAdapterImpl,dm-exec-13] Unblocking all IP addresses in the network ########-####-####-####-e4f18a06693c for the execution ID ########-####-####-####-3c2b05c70828.

[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] WARN [vcf_dm,50bfa8598976449f,38a0] [c.v.e.s.c.s.a.n.NetworkPoolAdapterImpl,dm-exec-13] There are no IP addresses blocked for network ########-####-####-####-e4f18a06693c.

[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] INFO [vcf_dm,50bfa8598976449f,38a0] [c.v.e.s.c.s.a.n.NetworkPoolAdapterImpl,dm-exec-13] Unblocking all IP addresses in the network ########-####-####-####-5de85c262059 for the execution ID ########-####-####-####-3c2b05c70828.

[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] WARN [vcf_dm,50bfa8598976449f,38a0] [c.v.e.s.c.s.a.n.NetworkPoolAdapterImpl,dm-exec-13] There are no IP addresses blocked for network ########-####-####-####-5de85c262059.

[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] ERROR [vcf_dm,50bfa8598976449f,38a0] [c.v.e.s.o.model.error.ErrorFactory,dm-exec-13] [MP29FJ] SDDC_MANAGER_FAILED_TO_ASSIGN_IP Failed to allocate IPs from networks with error:

 

Confirm the Networks for which above mentioned IDs belong to

 

In this case,

########-####-####-####-e4f18a06693c - vMotion

########-####-####-####-5de85c262059 - vSAN

Resolution

Update network information using the public APIs Network Pools APIs | VMware Cloud Foundation API

 

If unable to complete the task, please contact VMware Broadcom GS to manually edit the SDDC Manager database