Error: "Unknown IP Addressing Mode" when Growing the scale group
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Error: "Unknown IP Addressing Mode" when Growing the scale group

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Article ID: 388504

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Products

VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

  • Growing the scale group you get the error:

    [#########-####-####-########5a5d] Invalid network parameter: Unknown IP Addressing Mode "POOL" for vNIC 0 on VM "#########-####-####-########a4d6" connected to network "none".
  • In /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-debug.log below entry is shown:

    DATE TIME | ERROR    | Backend-activity-pool-356990 | VAppManagerImpl                | An error occurred while saving the vAppSpec | requestId=#########-####-####-########9536,request=POST https://cloud.example.com/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/urn:vcloud:entity:vmware:scalegroup:#########-####-####-########...,requestTime=1736518900172,remoteAddress=##.##.##.##,userAgent=vcd-openapi-client,accept=*/*;version 39.0 vcd=#########-####-####-########6a40,task=#########-####-####-########025b activity=(com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.syste
    m.TaskActivity,urn:uuid:#########-####-####-########025b) activity=(com.vmware.vcloud.behaviors.execution.impl.BehaviorExecutionActivity,urn:uuid:#########-####-####-########8213) activity=(com.vmwa
    re.vcloud.activities.scaling.GrowActivity,urn:uuid:#########-####-####-########002c)
    com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.service.BadRequestException: Invalid network parameter: Unknown IP Addressing Mode "POOL" for vNIC 0 on VM "#########-####-####-########a4d6" connected to network "none".
    [....]
  • The network name of the network  used in the scale group was recently changed.

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.6

Cause

The network name is fetched instead of the network UUID.

Resolution

This issue has been identified and a fix is scheduled for a future release.

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