VCF bringup failure in Deploying and Configuring NSX

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• When trying to configure the TNP, may run into the following problem for the following API call to NSX:

PUT https://<NSX-MGR-FQDN>/policy/api/v1/infra/sites/default/enforcement-points/default/transport-node-collections/?apply_profile=true

Request body:

{ "compute_collection_id": "xxxx:domain-c10", "transport_node_profile_id": "/infra/host-transport-node-profiles/yyyy" }

Response:

{ "httpStatus" : "BAD_REQUEST", "error_code" : 26181, "module_name" : "service-installation-fabric", "error_message" : "NSX cannot be enabled on cluster as vLCM is enabled on the cluster in vSphere system. Integration with vLCM is not supported this vCenter release." }

• Logs to check on the NSX Manager node -
  • /var/log/proton/nsxapi.log
    
    2025-12-10T11:40:32.119Z INFO http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-10 ComputeManagerFinderImpl 81100 FABRIC [nsx@4413 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" reqId="2db550ba-####-####-####-3b25b589f7f8" subcomp="manager" username="svc-sddc-manager-mgmt-nsx-4619"] Returning compute manager's status with given id 5843ed31-####-####-####-9ae7b2cbf6d5, has id
2025-12-10T11:40:32.120Z INFO http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-10 VlcmUtils 81100 FABRIC [nsx@4413 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" reqId="2db550ba-####-####-####-3b25b589f7f8" subcomp="manager" username="svc-sddc-manager-mgmt-nsx-4619"] Invalid version received: null
2025-12-10T11:40:32.122Z ERROR http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-10 TransportNodeCollectionServiceImpl 81100 FABRIC [nsx@4413 comp="nsx-manager" errorCode="PM26181" level="ERROR" reqId="2db550ba-####-####-####-3b25b589f7f8" subcomp="manager" username="svc-sddc-manager-mgmt-nsx-4619"] NSX cannot enabled on host(s) or cluster as vLCM is enabled on the cluster in vSphere system.
2025-12-10T11:40:32.123Z INFO http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-10 TransportNodeCollectionServiceImplTraceAspect 81100 POLICY [nsx@4413 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" reqId="2db550ba-####-####-####-3b25b589f7f8" subcomp="manager" username="svc-sddc-manager-mgmt-nsx-4619"] NSX-Tracing end trace validateTncCreate
2025-12-10T11:40:32.123Z WARN http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-10 TransportNodeCollectionServiceImplTraceAspect 81100 POLICY [nsx@4413 comp="nsx-manager" level="WARNING" reqId="2db550ba-####-####-####-3b25b589f7f8" subcomp="manager" username="svc-sddc-manager-mgmt-nsx-4619"] NSX-Trace Ended abruptly validateTncCreate
2025-12-10T11:40:32.124Z INFO http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-10 TraceAspectAjIf 81100 POLICY [nsx@4413 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" reqId="2db550ba-####-####-####-3b25b589f7f8" subcomp="manager" username="svc-sddc-manager-mgmt-nsx-4619"] abnormally finish tracing a workflow with name validateTncCreate
2025-12-10T11:40:32.124Z WARN http-nio-127.0.0.1-7440-exec-10 PolicyResourceChangeNotificationManager 81100 POLICY [nsx@4413 comp="nsx-manager" level="WARNING" reqId="2db550ba-####-####-####-3b25b589f7f8" subcomp="manager" username="svc-sddc-manager-mgmt-nsx-4619"] Failure received invoking listener TransportNodeCollectionListener for change CREATING on resource /infra/sites/default/enforcement-points/default/transport-node-collections/10492541-####-####-####-95e6b76466ef com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.transportnodecollection.exception.TransportNodeCollectionException: null at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.transportnodecollection.service.TransportNodeCollectionServiceImpl.validateVLCMSupport(TransportNodeCollectionServiceImpl.java:1452) ~[?:?] at com.vmware.nsx.management.policy.transportnodecollection.service.TransportNodeCollectionServiceImpl.validateTncCreate(TransportNodeCollectionServiceImpl.java:1665) ~[?:?]

Environment

VMware NSX 9.0.2

Cause

LCM workflow is retrieving version from the origin properties of the compute manager status table before it is updated, thereby failing the workflow of applying the TNP. 

Resolution

Wait for 2 to 5 mins the retry the operation to resolve this issue.