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

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Article ID: 378844

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Products

VMware vCenter Server VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

  • VPXD service crashes when using the HCX solution on vCenter Server 6.7
  • The vpxd service create a core dump on the vCenter in folder /var/core/ 
  • HCX version 4.9
  • This issue does not affect vCenter 7.0 or vCenter 8.0.
  • On vCenter, the following events are observed in  /var/log/vMonCoredumper.log
    <timestamp>| host-####| I125: Successfully generated core file /var/core/core.vpxd-worker.####

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 resolved in VMware HCX 4.10.2  available at Broadcom Downloads.

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