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ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere: Host Discovery tasks fail within vCenter

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Applies to

  • ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere (OTV) 9.11
  • VMware vCenter 7.0 update 3

Issue

  • vCenter shows failed discovery tasks during OTV's host discovery:

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  • From OTV's vsc.log we see similar errors as this NPE error around the time of the failed discovery tasks:
2022-09-29 21:24:07,364Z [Hosthbmdgesx06.hamiltonbm.com] ERROR (HostDiscoverer) - [10.199.110.127] Discovery completed with error: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at com.netapp.vscv.server.Viapi.getDriverInfo(Viapi.java:479)
     at com.netapp.vscv.server.HostDiscoverer.call(HostDiscoverer.java:229)
     at com.netapp.vscv.server.HostDiscoverer.call(HostDiscoverer.java:37)
     at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
     at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
     at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
     at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:835)

 

 

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