NSX Transport Zone creation fails when creating a cluster in SDDC Manager
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NSX Transport Zone creation fails when creating a cluster in SDDC Manager

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Article ID: 429967

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Products

VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

When creating a cluster using SDDC Manager, the following message is output, indicating that the creation of NSX Transport Zones has failed, and the cluster creation fails.
"Message: Post validate failed during create transport zones. The transport zone with name: <overlay transport zone name>, and type: OVERLAY is not marked default on <NSX Manager>"

The domainmanager.log contains the following output:
####-##-##T##:##:##.### ERROR [vcf_dm,####,####] [c.v.e.s.o.model.error.ErrorFactory,dm-exec-9] [###] CREATE_TZS_POSTVALIDATE_FAILED_TZ_IS_NOT_DEFAULT Post validate failed during create transport zones. The transport zone with name: ###, and type: OVERLAY is not marked default on ###
com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.exceptions.OrchTaskException: Post validate failed during create transport zones. The transport zone with name: ###, and type: OVERLAY is not marked default on ###

Environment

VCF 5.2

Cause

If you change a transport zone created by SDDC Manager from the default on the NSX Manager side, cluster creation will fail with this error.

Resolution

Set the transport zone created by SDDC Manager as the default on the NSX Manager side and then retry cluster creation.

Additional Information

Japanese KB: SDDC Manager でクラスタ作成時に NSX Transport Zones 作成処理が失敗する