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Bryan_Erwin
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Reclaim an IP from the IP Pool allocated for ESXi VTEP

I had an IP Pool of 5 addresses all of which were allocated to my 5 ESXi hosts. I then screwed up the VTEP vmkernel port on one of the ESXi hosts. I was only able to correct it by adding another IP to the IP Pool range of addresses and then Forcing a Synch. Now I have an IP Pool that show 6 of 6 IP addresses allocated when in reality I only have 5 of 6 allocated to ESXi hosts. Is there any way for me to reclaim the 6th IP address in the pool that is still showing Allocated?

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SRoland
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Try the REST API call

DELETE https://<nsxmgr-ip>/api/2.0/services/ipam/pools/<pool-ID>/ipaddresses/<allocated-ip-address>

its in the API doc page 106. Of course you will need the pool ID first. Let me know if you need help with the steps.

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SRoland
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Try the REST API call

DELETE https://<nsxmgr-ip>/api/2.0/services/ipam/pools/<pool-ID>/ipaddresses/<allocated-ip-address>

its in the API doc page 106. Of course you will need the pool ID first. Let me know if you need help with the steps.

HTH,

Roland

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Bryan_Erwin
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OK, I have a REST client installed and looking at the API Guide you provided it looks pretty straight forward, My only remaining question is how to determine the "pool-id" that's required in the command line. Do you know where I can find the "pool-id"?

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SRoland
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Hi,

Just for the public I am putting it here as well:

run a GET in REST client on

https://<nsx-mgr>/api/2.0//services/ipam/pools/scope/globalroot-0

This will give you the list of pools defined on the manager.

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Bryan_Erwin
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The commands you provided worked perfect. My IP Pool in NSX Manager now says 5 of 6 allocated. At first it still wasn't obvious what the pool-id was after running the command https://<nsxmgr-ip>/api/2.0/services/ipam/pools/scope/globalroot-0. However, under <ipamAddressPools><ipamAddressPool> is <objectId> and its that objectid that is the pool-id needed for the command https://<nsxmgr-ip>/api/2.0/services/ipam/pools/<pool-id>/ipaddresses/<ipaddress>

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I know it's pretty old post but when I read this thought of adding some additional details:

First get the details using :  https://<nsx-mgr>/api/2.0//services/ipam/pools/scope/globalroot-0

Sample output is:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<ipamAddressPools>

    <ipamAddressPool>

        <objectId>ipaddresspool-2</objectId>

        <objectTypeName>IpAddressPool</objectTypeName>

        <vsmUuid>420D4BE6-0EBD-4739-90D4-9148CDCF63D5</vsmUuid>

        <nodeId>1adef85e-7816-420c-b269-5c24f5fe2c37</nodeId>

        <revision>1</revision>

        <type>

            <typeName>IpAddressPool</typeName>

        </type>

        <name>VTEP-Pool-new</name>

        <scope>

            <id>globalroot-0</id>

            <objectTypeName>GlobalRoot</objectTypeName>

            <name>Global</name>

        </scope>

        <clientHandle></clientHandle>

        <extendedAttributes/>

        <isUniversal>false</isUniversal>

        <universalRevision>0</universalRevision>

        <totalAddressCount>7</totalAddressCount>

        <usedAddressCount>7</usedAddressCount>

        <usedPercentage>100</usedPercentage>

        <prefixLength>22</prefixLength>

        <gateway>___________</gateway>

        <dnsSuffix>dcs.hgst.com</dnsSuffix>

        <dnsServer1>___________</dnsServer1>

        <dnsServer2></dnsServer2>

        <ipPoolType>ipv4</ipPoolType>

        <ipRanges>

            <ipRangeDto>

                <id>iprange-5</id>

                <startAddress>________</startAddress>

                <endAddress>_________</endAddress>

            </ipRangeDto>

        </ipRanges>

        <subnetId>subnet-5</subnetId>

Now you have required values like pool ID :   ipaddresspool-2

DELETE https://<nsxmgr-ip>/api/2.0/services/ipam/pools/<pool-ID>/ipaddresses/<allocated-ip-address>

Replace the NSXMANAGER & ACTUALIPVALUE based on your Infrastructure values -->

https://NSXMANAGER/api/2.0/services/ipam/pools/ipaddresspool-2/ipaddresses/ACTUALIPVALUE

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