Unable to add HCI compute node to ESXi 7.0U3 cluster using NDE 1.9P1
Applies to
- NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) 1.9P1
- NetApp HCI 1.9P1
- NetApp Element software 12.3.1 or 12.3.2
- ESXi 7.0U3
Issue
- Attempting to add HCI compute node using NDE fails with error:
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sf-nde.info
shows error:
2025-01-16T04:13:08.612730Z | 52591 | 27050449882 | HCI-T00577-POST-/api/2/en_US/scale/hci | app:1892 | ERROR | Exception on /api/2/en_US/scale/hci [POST]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "flask/app.py", line 1950, in full_dispatch_request
File "flask/app.py", line 1936, in dispatch_request
File "flask_restplus/api.py", line 313, in wrapper
File "flask/views.py", line 89, in view
File "flask_restplus/resource.py", line 44, in dispatch_request
File "sfprime/scale/scale_authorization.py", line 296, in decorator
File "sfprime/util/fabrixtools.py", line 1914, in wrapper
File "sfprime/scale/scale_api.py", line 157, in post
File "sfprime/util/vmwareutils.py", line 779, in get_cluster_esxi_versions
File "sfprime/util/vmwareutils.py", line 779, in <setcomp>
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'product'