Adrian Heißler

Tag: NSX

VMware home lab NSX-T setup

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On January 25, 2022

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In the previous article of the VMware homelab series, I’ve configured the core vSphere services. This time, I’m going to deploy and configure NSX-T.
The setup is a typical topology with two NSX edges to route to the ToR routers (VyOS appliances) via BGP. I’m currently using NSX-T 3.1.2 in the lab environment.

The overal topology can be seen in the followoing diagram.

The Edge Node VM design in the lab is driven by the following goals:

  • 2 pNICs available
  • A single N-VDS per edge node carrying both overlay and external traffic
  • Load balancing of overlay traffic with multi-TEP configuration
  • Deterministic North-South traffic pattern

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NSX-T Manager upgrade from 2.5.3 to 3.0.3 fails at resume_other_nodes

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On October 22, 2021

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Recently, I observed a strange behaviour during an NSX-T upgrade from version 2.5.3 to 3.0.3 at a customer. The NSX-T Manager upgrade failed for some reason while the Edge nodes and ESXi transport nodes had already been upgraded successfully.

The upgrade of the appliance was stuck and cannot proceed. Leveraging get upgrade progress-status on the upgrade orchestrator node shows that the upgrade fails at resume_other_nodes:

Trying to resume the upgrade at that step manually by executing start upgrade-bundle Vmware-NSX-unified-appliance-3.0.3.0.0.17777744 step resume_other_nodes didn’t work and resulted in the same error.

Together with GSS we then rebooted the two non orchestrator nodes and resumed the remaining steps of the upgrade manually from the CLI:

start upgrade-bundle Vmware-NSX-unified-appliance-3.0.3.0.0.17777744 step restore_datastore_cluster
start upgrade-bundle Vmware-NSX-unified-appliance-3.0.3.0.0.17777744 step update_upgrade_status
start upgrade-bundle Vmware-NSX-unified-appliance-3.0.3.0.0.17777744 step finish_upgrade

This time the upgrade finished successfully.

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