HCX - Resync service mesh failed with the error "Cannot complete a vSphere Distributed Switch operation for one or more host members"

Products

• VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

• An HCX Compute Profile is created with multiple datacenters selected in the "Service Resources".
• The following error is observed in /common/logs/admin/app.log:

2024-06-25 11:30:19.165 UTC [InterconnectService_SvcThread-207842, SM:servicemesh-########-####-####-####-############, IX:########-####-####-####-############, J:e7b257c1, , TxId: ########-####-####-####-############] ERROR c.v.v.h.s.i.InterconnectConfigureMA- Task task-52943652 errored out, error : Cannot complete a vSphere Distributed Switch operation for one or more host members.
com.vmware.vim.binding.vim.fault.DvsOperationBulkFault: Cannot complete a vSphere Distributed Switch operation for one or more host members.    
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2024-06-25 11:30:21.164 UTC [InterconnectService_SvcThread-207841, SM:servicemesh-########-####-####-####-############, IX:########-####-####-####-############, J:b6876334, , TxId: ########-####-####-####-############] ERROR c.v.v.h.s.i.ApplianceLifeCycleJob- Failure detected while verifying completion of InterconnectServiceJobs::interconnectConfigureMA. Reason: Interconnect Service Workflow interconnectConfigureMA failed. Error: Adding Mobility Agent Host failed. Adding host to DVS <DVS NAME> failed. Error : Cannot complete a vSphere Distributed Switch operation for one or more host members.
java.lang.RuntimeException: Interconnect Service Workflow interconnectConfigureMA failed. Error: Adding Mobility Agent Host failed. Adding host to DVS <DVS NAME> failed. Error : Cannot complete a vSphere Distributed Switch operation for one or more host members.

• On vCenter tasks, the task failed for adding the MA (Mobility Agent) host with the error message:  "The host is in a different  datacenter <name> than the vCenter VDS datacenter <name>."

Environment

HCX 

Cause

This limitation is explained in the Compute Profile Considerations and Concepts, where deployment cluster and service clusters must be confined to a single data center, as DVS cannot be used across different datacenters.

Resolution

Using a single HCX service mesh across multiple datacenters is not supported.

 

Workaround:

If vCenter contains multiple datacenters, create a new HCX Compute Profile selecting the deployment cluster and service cluster from the same datacenter, then deploy the service mesh.