Troubleshooting vSphere NSX manager issues


This week I installed VMWare NSX and created a new NSX manager instance. After deploying the OVF and prepping my cluster members I went to create the three recommended controller nodes. This resulted in a “Failed to power on VM NSX Controller” error which didn’t make sense. The package was installed correctly, the configuration parameters were correct and I double and tripled checked that the controllers could communicate with my NSX manager. NSX manager provides appmgmt, system and manager logs which can be viewed with the show utility:

nsx> show log manager follow

To see what was going on I tailed the manager log and attempted to create another controller. The creation failed but the following log entry was generated:

inherited from com.vmware.vim.binding.vim.fault.InsufficientFailoverResourcesFault:
Insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover level for vSphere HA.

I had a cluster node in maintenance mode to apply some security updates so this made total sense. Adding the node back to the cluster allowed me to create my controllers without issue.

This article was posted by Matty on 2016-12-25 10:08:00 -0400 -0400