The last few months I have done a lot of work with NSX-T. I have not done so much networking since my CCNA days. I wanted to share a couple of things that were really helpful I found out on the web.
I was using NSX-T 2.4.2 and sometimes some troubleshooting guides were not very helpful as they were very specific to other versions.
This was great for removing some things I broke.
Deleting NSX-T Objects
Since the end goal with NSX was PKS this is where I spent time over and over.
https://docs.pivotal.io/pks/1-5/nsxt-prepare-env.html
After everything worked installing PKS I got this error when deploying a PKS cluster.
The deployment was failing and I kept seeing references to: pks-nsx-t-osb-proxy
https://community.pivotal.io/s/article/pks-nsx-t-osb-proxy-job-fails-while-installing-PKS
https://cormachogan.com/2019/02/05/reviewing-pks-logs-and-status/
https://community.pivotal.io/s/question/0D50P00003xMeUBSA0/installing-pivotal-container-service-failed-with-pksnsxtosbproxy
Some helpful information in those few links. Main thing is when you create certificates for NSX-T Manager, you should apply them too.
Also, make sure the NIC’s on your ESXi hosts are all setup the same way. I had 4 nics and 4 different VLAN/Trunk configs, no bueno. Also as VXLAN wants the frames to be at least 1600 MTU. I set everything to 9000 just for fun. That worked much better.
