Distributed Portgroup on VDS appears corrupt when new VMs being attached, have no network connectivity

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• Using vCenter Server DVS

• Using VLAN backed Distributed Portgroup (DvPG) for VM connectivity

• Third party port mirroring solution is enabled in VMware environment, such as Gigamon GigaVUE V Series

• vCenter throwing an error similar to:

  • A specified parameter was not correct: port[99284351] can not be add/edit here, for it was used by same or other sessions

• Adding new VM to DvPG results in no connectivity to the network

Environment

VMware vCenter Server

VMware vSphere ESXi

Cause

Issue can be caused by a stuck/stale port mirror session on the portgroup in question

Resolution

Remove port mirroring deployments or stuck/stale port mirroring session related to error above

Additional Information

Unable to add/remove/edit port mirroring sessions in vSphere 8.0

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