Welcome to the eleventh installment of a new series of NSX troubleshooting scenarios. Thanks to everyone who took the time to comment on the first half of the scenario. Today I’ll be performing some troubleshooting and will show how I came to the solution.
Please see the first half for more detail on the problem symptoms and some scoping.
Getting Started
As you’ll recall in the first half, our fictional customer was seeing some HA heartbeat channel alarms in the new HTML5 NSX dashboard.
After doing some digging, we were able to determine that the ESG had an interface configured for HA on VLAN 16 and that from the CLI, the edge really was complaining about being unable to reach its peer.
You probably noticed in the first half, that the HA interface doesn’t have an IP address configured. This may look odd, but it’s fine. Even if you did specify a custom /30 IP address for HA purposes, it would not show up as an interface IP address here. Rather, you’d need to look for one specified in the HA configuration settings here:
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