VPXD service on vCenter Server 6.7 Appliance crashes when using HCX solution

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• VPXD service crashes when using the HCX solution on vCenter Server 6.7
• The vpxd service create a core dump.
• HCX version 4.9 and above
• This issue does not affect vCenter 7.0 or vCenter 8.0.
• The following events are observed in  /var/log/vMonCoredumper.log
  
  

  2024-09-04T01:03:05.270Z| host-17333| I125: Successfully generated core file /var/core/core.vpxd-worker.13071.
  2024-09-04T01:04:06.392Z| host-22808| I125: Successfully generated core file /var/core/core.vpxd-worker.17832.
  2024-09-05T01:05:17.874Z| host-35331| I125: Successfully generated core file /var/core/core.vpxd-worker.8297.
  2024-09-06T01:07:21.879Z| host-6062| I125: Successfully generated core file /var/core/core.vpxd-worker.54865.

Environment

vCenter 6.7,HCX 4.x

Cause

HCX is sending malformed event to vCenter which is resulting in the vpxd crash 

 

Resolution

This issue is fixed on vCenter 7.x and above 

If you believe you have encountered this issue, please open a support case with Broadcom Support and refer to this KB article.
For more information, see Creating and managing Broadcom support cases.