Edge node deployment or redeployment fails during VMware NSX-T data center upgrade: 'Host did not have any virtual network defined'
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Edge node deployment or redeployment fails during VMware NSX-T data center upgrade: 'Host did not have any virtual network defined'

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Article ID: 373935

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Products

VMware NSX-T Data Center VMware NSX Networking

Issue/Introduction

  • Upgrading from VMware NSX-T 3.1.x to 3.2.1 or 4.0.

  • During the upgrade, after the edges have been upgraded and before the managers upgrade has been completed, a new edge node was deployed and this operation failed with the following error:

    “Host did not have any virtual network defined"
  • Checking the VMware NSX-T manager log: /var/log/proton/nsxapi.log we can see the following entries:
    <DATE/TIME> INFO ActivityWorkerPool-1-8 VCExecuteOperationImpl 6439 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" subcomp="manager"] Retriving ConfigDataDto for cmPluginId xxxxxxxx-5799-46fb-bd59-xxxxxxxxxxxx
    <DATE/TIME> INFO ActivityWorkerPool-1-8 VCExecuteOperationImpl 6439 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" subcomp="manager"] CmPlugin response obtained for action [DeployOvf] of compute-manager: xxxxxxxx-5799-46fb-bd59-xxxxxxxxxxxx and request id: 71daab9f-7b5e-4968-8a21-6d461b3ef59c with status FAILED.
    <DATE/TIME> ERROR ActivityWorkerPool-1-8 VCExecuteOperationImpl 6439 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="MP26070" level="ERROR" subcomp="manager"] CmPlugin execution of DeployOvf failed for compute-manager: xxxxxxxx-5799-46fb-bd59-xxxxxxxxxxxx with request id: 71daab9f-7b5e-4968-8a21-6d461b3ef59c
    <DATE/TIME> ERROR ActivityWorkerPool-1-8 Vc60VmSfdmManager 6439 FABRIC [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="MP26065" level="ERROR" subcomp="manager"] Unable to deploy VM: NSX-Edge-01 on compute collection: Node/xxxxxxxx-4735-a5e7-xxxxxxxxxxxx
    com.vmware.nsx.management.sfdm.exception.CmPluginExecutionFailed: Ovf deploy for vm NSX-Edge-01 failed on vc 10..x.x.x : Host did not have any virtual network defined.
        at com.vmware.nsx.management.sfdm.vc.util.VCExecuteOperationImpl.logResponse(VCExecuteOperationImpl.java:1066) ~[libservice-fabric-installation.jar:?]
        at com.vmware.nsx.management.sfdm.vc.util.VCExecuteOperationImpl.deployOvfTemplate(VCExecuteOperationImpl.java:366) ~[libservice-fabric-installation.jar:?]
        at com.vmware.nsx.management.sfdm.vc.Vc60VmSfdmManager.deploy(Vc60VmSfdmManager.java:98) ~[libservice-fabric-installation.jar:?]
        at com.vmware.nsx.management.sfm.deployment.service.DeploymentUnitActivityVMDeploy.phaseVMDeploy(DeploymentUnitActivityVMDeploy.java:215) ~[libservice-fabric-installation.jar:?]
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_332]
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:1.8.0_332]
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_332]
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[?:1.8.0_332]
        at com.vmware.nsx.management.container.activityframework.model.AbstractActivity.executePhase(AbstractActivity.java:147) ~[libnsx-framework.jar:?]
        at com.vmware.nsx.management.container.activityframework.service.impl.ActivityExecutor.executeActivityPhase(ActivityExecutor.java:640) ~[libnsx-framework.jar:?]

  • This issue can also occur during an edge node redeployment at the same point in the upgrade.

Cause

This issue can occur when the edge OVF features of the new version are not backward compatible, so do not match what the current not upgraded manager version is.

Resolution

Upgrades from NSX-T 3.2.1 onwards, edges nodes can be deployed or redeployed before managers are upgraded.

 

Workaround:

Deploy new edge node:

  • Deploy the new edge node, after Manager upgrade is complete.

 

Redeploy failed edge node:

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