stale IPAddressAllocation which is stuck in "In Progress" state on the NSX UI

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• Upon searching the stale IPAddressAllocation on the global search of NSX UI, it will be shown as below

• The pool member was created from TKG end.
• Delete using DEL API "https://<nsx-mngr-ip>/api/v1/infra/ip-pools/<pool-name>/ip-allocations/<uuid>" adding "X-Allow-Overwrite: true however issue persists
• Below logs will be seen under /var/log/syslog

2025-12-02T09:07:50.945Z <nsx-mgr> NSX 6299 POLICY [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="PM5008" level="ERROR" subcomp="manager"] Ip Pool identifier is null or empty
2025-12-02T09:07:50.945Z <nsx-mgr> NSX 6299 POOL-MGMT [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="MP5008" level="ERROR" subcomp="manager"] Ip Pool Identifier is null
2025-12-02T09:07:50.945Z <nsx-mgr> NSX 6299 POLICY [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="PM500016" level="ERROR" subcomp="manager"] Service call failed with message Pool identifier is null. and error com.vmware.nsx.management.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Pool identifier is null.#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.idas.ipam.service.IPAMServiceImpl.getPool(IPAMServiceImpl.java:518)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.idas.ipam.service.IPAMServiceImpl.getPoolIfExists(IPAMServiceImpl.java:1132)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.idas.ipam.service.IPAMServiceImpl.release(IPAMServiceImpl.java:752)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.providers.ipam.nsxt.PolicyIpamProviderNsxT.releaseIpOnNsx(PolicyIpamProviderNsxT.java:1316)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.providers.ipam.nsxt.PolicyIpamProviderNsxT.lambda$processIpAddressPoolAllocationDeletion$22(PolicyIpamProviderNsxT.java:1232)#012#011at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(Unknown Source)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.providers.ipam.nsxt.PolicyIpamProviderNsxT.processIpAddressPoolAllocationDeletion(PolicyIpamProviderNsxT.java:1204)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.providers.ipam.common.PolicyIpamBaseProvider.cleanupObjectsInternal(PolicyIpamBaseProvider.java:178)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.providers.ipam.common.PolicyIpamBaseProvider.handleAtomicPush(PolicyIpamBaseProvider.java:115)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.policyframework.engine.ProviderInvocationTask.handleAtomciPush(ProviderInvocationTask.java:522)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.policyframework.engine.ProviderInvocationTask.innerRun(ProviderInvocationTask.java:268)#012#011at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.policyframework.engine.ProviderInvocationTask.run(ProviderInvocationTask.java:156)#012#011at 

Environment

VMware NSX 4.x

Cause

Suspected that the pool was deleted before the allocations

Resolution

This needs a corfu edit to cleanup the stale entry. Collect all the 3 NSX Manager nodes support bundles and open a support request with Broadcom