Symptoms
Fail to ping between VMs on different ESXi hosts via DLR.
"net-vdr -C -l" command shows that uplinks' names have non-English characters:
DvsName VdrPort NumLifs VdrVmac
------- ------- ------- -------
DSwitch-Mgmt vdrPort 2 02:50:56:56:44:52
Vdr Switch Port: 67108875
Teaming Policy: SrcPortId Hashing
Uplink : アップリンク 2(67108869): 00:50:56:e7:47:50(Non-team member)
Uplink : アップリンク 1(67108866): 00:50:56:e7:64:d4(Non-team member)
esxtop shows that vdr-vdrPort is void:
PORT-ID USED-BY TEAM-PNIC DNAME PKTTX/s MbTX/s PSZTX PKTRX/s MbRX/s PSZRX %DRPTX %DRPRX
67108865 Management n/a DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
67108866 vmk0 vmnic1 DvsPortset-1 1.94 0.00 147.00 0.39 0.00 76.00 0.00 0.00
67108867 vmnic1 - DvsPortset-1 1.94 0.00 147.00 11.65 0.01 158.00 0.00 0.00
67108868 Shadow of vmnic1 n/a DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
67108869 vmnic0 - DvsPortset-1 1.17 0.00 238.00 12.43 0.01 149.00 0.00 0.00
67108870 Shadow of vmnic0 n/a DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
67108872 vmk1 vmnic0 DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
67108873 vdr-vdrPort void DvsPortset-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Cause
NSX Manager cannot handle with Japanese characters when sending vxlan configurations to ESXi hosts.
Resolution
This issue is fixed in NSX 6.4.2.
Workaround
Create uplinks with English characters.
