N-VDS still remains after deletion host from Transport node and Node.

[ZozoPaliashvili]

Hello,

I have deleted the physical host (esxi) from nsx-t environment via manager. It has been done, but with some error.

Then I find out that N-VDS still remains on physical NIC.

How can I delete N-VDS, because when I try to add Transport node to this host again, I have error that physical NIC is already in use.

I try to use this command : esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware list

to find port-id to use: esxcfg-vswitch -Q vmnic -V dvPort_ID_of_vmnic dvSwitch

but it doesn't show N-VDS there.

[daphnissov]

You should have removed this node as a transport node. You may need to remove the VIBs from the ESXi host and re-add it.

[RaymundoEC]

assuming it is NSX-T 2.4 there is an option to "force deletion of nsx "  or you should remove the ESXi host from TZ in order to remove the nvds.

[ZozoPaliashvili]

Thanks for reply!

I think I've removed the host not in proper way, but it was removed. Eventually, I have host with N-VDS on vmnic.

When I have manually deleted the nsx-t's VIB, the N-VDS has disappeared, but when I install nsx-t's VIB again, the old N-VDS appears.

Seems like there are some files of N-VDS, that still remains on host. Maybe there are some method to delete this files manually.

[ZozoPaliashvili]

Thanks for reply!

The version of NSX-T is 2.3.

The host has been removed from TZ, but I think some problem occurred during removing.

Eventually, my host not in NSX infrastructure at all. But I have N-VDS on vmnic.

As I said before, seems like that there are some file of N-VDS, that still remains on host.

[ZozoPaliashvili · Accepted solution]

I've found this one.

From nsxcli :

set debug-mode

set service nsx-opsagent nsxa reset

From esxcli :

/etc/init.d/nsx-proxy restart

After this action, N-VDS will be removed.