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Adding or redeploying a DLR from NSX fails with an error similar to the below: Deployment of edge gateway dlr-name failed. Failed while updating distributed router interfaces and dhcp relay on controller for NSX Edge edge-id., error code 10026, (org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException: Null value was assigned to a property [class com.vmware.vshield.vsm.vdn.nvpcontroller.model.VdrInstance.global] of primitive type setter of com.vmware.vshield.vsm.vdn.nvpcontroller.model.VdrInstance.global) Unable to access or ping networks behind DLRPing from ESG internal interface to DLR uplink Interface failsCommand output for net-vdr --instance -l on the ESXi host shows number of LIFs and routes as 0: VDR Instance Information ---------------------------Vdr Name: edge-628Vdr Id: 0x000493f5Number of Lifs: 0Number of Routes: 0Number of Hold Pkts: 0Number of Neighbors: 0State: EnabledController IP: 192.168.189.25Control Plane IP: 192.168.190.59Control Plane Active: YesNum unique nexthops: 0Generation Number: 0Edge Active: NoPmac: 00:00:00:00:00:00Multicast Routing: Disabled ESXi host and NSX Manager logs indicate stale VDR table entries in the NSX Manger DBEntries similar to the below will be observed in the ESXi host vmkernel.log: 2021-12-29T13:34:54.727Z cpu7:2102109)WARNING: vdrb: VdrCpProcessVdrMcastUpdateMessage:3137: CP:Mcast Update: Failed for VDR [I:0x493e5] status: Bad parameter Entries similar to the below will be observed in the ESXi host vmkwarning.log: 2021-12-29T13:34:46.867Z cpu7:2102109)WARNING: vdrb: VdrCpProcessLifUpdateMessage:1348: CP:[I:0x493f4] Lif Update: Not able to find Active connection Entries similar to the below will be observed in the NSX Manageer vsm.log: 2022-01-24 08:59:52.833 GMT INFO messagingTaskExecutor-9 VdrDvsInfoHandler:27 - - [nsxv@6876 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" subcomp="manager"] Processing VdrDvsInfoRequest from: host-4390Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not set boolean field com.vmware.vshield.vsm.vdn.nvpcontroller.model.VdrInstance.global to null valueCaused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException: Null value was assigned to a property [class com.vmware.vshield.vsm.vdn.nvpcontroller.model.VdrInstance.global] of primitive type setter of com.vmware.vshield.vsm.vdn.nvpcontroller.model.VdrInstance.global2022-01-24 09:00:00.134 GMT INFO TaskFrameworkExecutor-24 MissingResourcesHousekeeper:44 - - [nsxv@6876 comp="nsx-manager" level="INFO" subcomp="manager"] Housekeeping: Started checking for stale Vdr Instances in DB2022-01-24 09:00:00.158 GMT WARN TaskFrameworkExecutor-24 SqlExceptionHelper:129 - SQL Error: 0, SQLState: 235032022-01-24 09:00:00.159 GMT ERROR TaskFrameworkExecutor-24 SqlExceptionHelper:131 - ERROR: update or delete on table "vnvp_vdr_instance" violates foreign key constraint "vnvp_vdr_instance_backing_vdr_instance_fkey" on table "vnvp_vdr_instance_backing"Detail: Key (vdr_id)=(300014) is still referenced from table "vnvp_vdr_instance_backing"
Stale VDR table entries are not cleaned up due to a housekeeping task error. This precedes the symptoms and log entries detailed above.
Fix will be in 6.4.14
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