NSX Controller log collection

Controller is the real game changer component in the overall architecture of NSX. For the same reason, it remains a critical piece when it comes to troubleshooting. As we all know, controllers are deployed from NSX Manager in an Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA). In a worst-case scenario, even the deployment of controllers might fail, and that would be a showstopper for any NSX implementation. The majority of such failures happen for the following two reasons:

  • DNS
  • NTP

There should be proper DNS/NTP configuration between ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, and NSX Manager for a successful deployment of NSX Controller. Apart from this point, a successful deployment of any virtual machine in vSphere certainly needs enough compute ...

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