NSX install on ESXi Transport Node fails at 48% "Waiting for Connection to Managers"

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• Host was previously prepared for NSX.
• Host was removed from NSX due to a hardware replacement.
• Preparing host for NSX fails with error: "Waiting for Connection to Managers".
• Running the following command shows host has VIBs from previous installation.
  
  esxcli software vib list | grep -i nsx

Environment

VMware NSX

Resolution

This is a condition that may occur in a VMware NSX environment.

1. Put the ESX host into maintenance mode.
2. SSH to the ESX host and stop the NSX proxy.
   
   /etc/init.d/nsx-proxy stop
   
   
3. Delete the NSX configuration.
   
   nsxcli -c del nsx


4. Within the NSX UI, configure the host for NSX.