Site pairing with HCX manager is not permitted without registering a valid NSX Manager. Register the NSX manager in appliance management interface at the destination HCX manager and retry.

Products

• VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

 When creating a site pair the following error was encountered: Site pairing with HCX manager is not permitted without registering a valid NSX Manager. Register the NSX manager in appliance management interface at the destination HCX manager and retry.
 

Resolution

As of HCX version 4.11.x this is now a product requirement for NSX to be registered within the destination environment.  Source documentation: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/hcx/vmware-hcx/4-11/hcx-4-11-release-notes/vmware-hcx-411-release-notes.html 

Usability Enhancements and Changes

• Enforcing NSX configuration to the destination HCX Cloud Manager

  With this release, site pairing with HCX Manager is not permitted without registering a valid NSX Manager at the target/destination side. Users will be notified to ensure NSX configuration is done for destination HCX cloud manager system under the HCX Appliance Management (:9443 UI) interface.

 

Additional Information

NSX Requirements for HCX integration