Error: "Cannot delete organization VDC network <Network Name>" when deleting an Organization VDC network
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Error: "Cannot delete organization VDC network <Network Name>" when deleting an Organization VDC network

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Article ID: 429338

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Products

VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

  • Deleting the Organization VDC network from the UI results in following error:

    Cannot delete organization VDC network <Network Name> (########-####-####-####-############)
  • Within /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-debug.log, the following snippet can be seen:

    com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.service.BadRequestException: Cannot delete organization VDC network <network name> (########-####-####-####-############)
     
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.network.OrgVdcNetwork.undeployAndDelete(OrgVdcNetwork.java:159)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.network.NsxVOrgVdcNetwork.undeployAndDelete(NsxVOrgVdcNetwork.java:287)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.services.handlerproxy.activity.networks.OrgVdcNetworkActivity.deleteOrgVdcNetwork(OrgVdcNetworkActivity.java:43)
    .
    .
    Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.nsxtresource.segment.NsxTSegment.load(NsxTSegment.java:371)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.nsxtresource.segment.NsxTSegment.findSegmentById(NsxTSegment.java:83)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.network.ImportedTLogicalSwitch.findMatchingSegmentForNetworkIdUsingSegmentId(ImportedTLogicalSwitch.java:199)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.network.ImportedTLogicalSwitch.findMatchingSegmentForNetworkId(ImportedTLogicalSwitch.java:192)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.network.ImportedTLogicalSwitch.undeploy(ImportedTLogicalSwitch.java:113)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.network.RealNetwork.undeploy(RealNetwork.java:69)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.network.TenantNetwork.undeployRealNetwork(TenantNetwork.java:369)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.networking.model.network.OrgVdcNetwork.undeployAndDelete(OrgVdcNetwork.java:147)

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1.2

Cause

This issue can occur if the Provider VDC of the OrgVDC is missing reference to the NSX-T manager.

Resolution

In order to resolve the issue a database modification is needed. Please Contact Broadcom Support