Removing an ESXi Worker Node from vSphere Supervisor Cluster Fails

Products

• VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

Issue/Introduction

• Placing an ESXi host into Maintenance Mode and moving it to a different cluster or datacenter fails to remove worker node from the Supervisor Cluster.
• Manually deleting the node using the command kubectl delete node <ESXi node> removes it from the Supervisor Cluster. However, the ESXi worker node reappears after a few minutes in a NotReady state.

Environment

VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

Resolution

To remove the host from the Supervisor cluster, refer to  Broadcom doc Remove Hosts from a Supervisor. 

Note: If the issue persists, reach out to Broadcom Support.