Dell VxRail: Node add validation failed if the management network load balancing policy is "Route based on IP hash"

Summary: VxRail does not support the route based on IP hash load-balancing policy, day2 node add validation fails if the management port group chooses that policy.

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Symptoms

VxRail does not support the route based on IP hash load-balancing policy, but in VCF on VxRail environment, when adding a WLD from SDDC UI, the user can select that policy and deploy the VI WLD cluster successfully.
Switch Configuration in the SDDC UI

However, day2 node add validation fails due to a VLAN validation error.
VLAN validation error

 

Cause

VxRail does not support "route based on ip hash" load-balancing policy.

Static LAG cannot be used for system port groups including "management," " vxraildiscovery" and "vxrailsystemvm" port groups.

 

Resolution

Modify the Management Network port group load-balancing policy to a VxRail supported policy.
The following example chooses the "Route based on originating virtual port" load-balancing policy and active/standby failover policy.

  1. Log in to vCenter UI, edit the Management Network port group.
    Editing the Management Network port group

  2. Change the load balancing to "Route based on originating virtual port" and set only one uplink as "Active."
    Changing the load balancing

  3. Retry the node add validation.

 

Additional Information

See the Dell VxRail Network Planning Guide for more information about the VxRail supported load balancing and failover policies.

 

Affected Products

VxRail Software
Article Properties
Article Number: 000236639
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 06 Jan 2025
Version:  2
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