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SCV Backups fail for a given Resource Group

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Applies to

SnapCenter Plug-in for VMWare vSphere (SCV)  4.4P1 | 4.6

Issue

SCV backups fail for a given Resource Group (RG) with the following error in the failed backup job log:
 
Error: Unable to discover resources on SCV: Storage discovery failed, received error during operation: java.lang.NullPointerException. Please refer to operation logs for more details.

 
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The vmcontrol.log shows the below related errors:
 
Did not find the Datastore by Moref: Datastore:datastore-19001, returning null
Storage discovery failed, received error during operation: java.lang.NullPointerException. Please refer to operation logs for more details.
java.lang.NullPointerException

 

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