Support for BIOS Mode on NSX Manager and NSX Edge Appliances

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

NSX Manager and NSX Edge will fail to boot if the boot options are changed from BIOS (legacy) mode to EFI mode

You see messages similar to the following when attempting to boot the NSX appliance VM:

Attempting to start up from:

 -> EFI Virtual disk (0.0)... No Media.
 -> EFI Virtual disk (1.0)... No Media.
 -> EFI Network...

 

 

Environment

NSX manager and NSX edge APPLIANCE 

Cause

NSX Manager and edge appliances come with a pre-installed operating system configured with BIOS (legacy) boot settings

UEFI mode is supported exclusively for bare metal edge deployments (via ISO image), allowing users to select between legacy BIOS and UEFI options

Resolution

This is an expected behavior.