"Listing failed for DVSwitch: DvsPortset-X, Error: Unable to get MTU: Status(bad0007)= Bad parameter" error when running esxcfg-vswitch -l

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• ESXi is part of NSX
• VDS is out of sync in vCenter
• vMotion fails with the error: A general system error occurred: DVS error: see faulteCause Cannot create Distributed Port Group dvportgroup-xxxxx
• When running the command esxcfg-vswitch -l, this error is returned: Listing failed for DVSwitch: DVsPortset-x, Error: Unable to get MTU:Status (bad0007)=Bad parameter 

Environment

VMware ESXi

VMware NSX

Cause

This issue can occur due to some uncleared properties on the host.

Resolution

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

Additional Information

See also:

ESXi host lost network connectivity during preparation for NSX

Adding a host to vDS Distributed Switch fails with error: Create DVSwitch failed with the following error message: Unable to Create Proxy DVS ; Status(bad0005)= Already exis