NSX not registering with vLCM

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• A cluster is prepared in NSX for Security Only
• The cluster in NSX GUI is not showing a vLCM enabled tag
• You are trying to configure this cluster to be managed by vLCM
• vLCM wants to remove NSX
• NSX is properly configured to connect to vCenter with "Enable Trust" and "Create Service Account" both enabled

Environment

NSX-T

 

Cause

vLCM's default images do NOT include NSX components.  When applying vLCM to a cluster in vSphere/SDDC, it will try to remove NSX from the hosts.

Resolution

1. Remove NSX from the cluster.
2. Apply vLCM to the cluster
3. Re-Add the cluster to NSX.  This step will trigger vLCM to retrieve the NSX image from the NSX manager, and add it to the LCM database.