How to cleanup a stuck NSX Controller node installation
As I was deploying my first NSX controller cluster, i faced a really annoying issue : The second node deployment was stuck on “Deploying” status.
I had already tried without any improvement to :
- stop the node and restart the manager only
- restart the new node and the manager,
- keep the node running and restart the manager
Unable to cancel, remove, kill (or whatever you want 🙂 ) the task, i decided to browse the NSX API guide.
This post will show you the different steps i followed to remove the task from the task queue and redeploy my second node.
| My lab consisted of :
vSphere 5.1 => vCloud director 5.1 => vApp => Nested ESXi 6.0.u1 => vcsa 6.0.u1 (external install) + NSX manager 6.1.4 + NSX controller |
After installing the Firefox REST Client (this post talks about the installation of Firefox RESTClient ):
- I run a GET method to list my controllers and their status via https://NSXManagerIP/api/2.0/vdn/controller.
I was able to confirm the status of the second node
- As the PUT method is not allowed (do not hesitate, please let me know if i am wrong) i had to delete the controller, to do so, i launched a DELETE Method https://NSXManagerIP/api/2.0/vdn/controller/controller-2?forceRemoval=False where controller-2 was the ID of the controller to delete.
I was then able to redeploy my controller 🙂
| PS : Notice that if you have to delete the last controller, you will have to force the removal by using the command https://NSXManagerIP/api/2.0/vdn/controller/controller-ID?forceRemoval=True. |