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7 Replies Last post: Nov 23, 2009 9:31 AM by sstover  

Placement of Request Fails posted: Nov 5, 2009 1:57 PM

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sstover
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After upgrading to 1.0.2 and applying the hotfix I cannot place a vm. The server log has the following entries:

2009-11-05 15:42:45.490-0600 INFO SCRIPTING_LOG TypeError: Cannot read property "name" from null (Workflow:Clone VM from Properties / Get Nic1 Values (item15)#2)
2009-11-05 15:42:45.490-0600 WARN WorkflowItemTaskRunner Script execution error on workflow : Provision one VM / 'Get Nic1 Values'(item15) : TypeError: Cannot read property "name" from null (Workflow:Clone VM from Properties / Get Nic1 Values (item15)#2)
2009-11-05 15:42:45.553-0600 INFO SCRIPTING_LOG TypeError: Cannot set property "isFree" of null to "true" (Workflow:Provision VM / Free IP Address (item10)#9772)
2009-11-05 15:42:45.553-0600 WARN WorkflowItemTaskRunner Script execution error on workflow : Provision one VM / 'Free IP Address'(item10) : TypeError: Cannot set property "isFree" of null to "true" (Workflow:Provision VM / Free IP Address (item10)#9772)

Any thoughts?

Re: Placement of Request Fails

1. Nov 9, 2009 3:18 AM in response to: sstover
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Todor Todorov
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Nov 19, 2007
Hi sstover,

What is the story of this VM? Was it created after the upgrade to 1.0.2 or before that?
Is the VM automatically or manually placed (i.e. going through the steps of the placement wizard)?
Is this reproducible for all VMs or only for a specific one?
The problem seems to be in the network associated with the VM.. Is it doable to dump the content of the LCM_TOKEN_DATA database table after the problem occurs?

Regards,
Todor

Re: Placement of Request Fails

2. Nov 17, 2009 2:06 PM in response to: Todor Todorov
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sstover
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Apr 15, 2009
Hi Todor,

Sorry for taking to long to reply I was on vacation. I started over meaning that I wiped out the databases removed the software and began anew. This time around I did not bother to upgrade just a clean install. After adding all of my inventory back in I created a new machine request to test the installation. Sure enough when I go deploy the vm from the placement section I receive the following in the virtual machine events in Lifecycle Manager

TypeError: Cannot set property "isFree" of null to "true" (Workflow:Provision VM / Free IP Address (item10)#9772)

The server log is as follows:

com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi35.model.VimVirtualMachine] -- VALUE : VirtualMachine<vm-39312>'TMPLX86STD'
2009-11-17 15:52:30.817-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[0]= lifecycleArchive
2009-11-17 15:52:30.832-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[1]= vmPool
2009-11-17 15:52:30.832-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[2]= provisionWflToken
2009-11-17 15:52:30.848-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[3]= vmFolder
2009-11-17 15:52:30.864-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[4]= lifecycleJoinDomainInfo
2009-11-17 15:52:30.864-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[5]= nic1Dhcp
2009-11-17 15:52:30.864-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[6]= nic1Mac
2009-11-17 15:52:30.864-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[7]= vmPowerOn
2009-11-17 15:52:30.864-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[8]= winClientName
2009-11-17 15:52:30.864-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas[9]= nic1NetworkDomain
2009-11-17 15:52:30.879-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas10= vmDatastore
2009-11-17 15:52:30.879-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas11= provisionWflToken
2009-11-17 15:52:30.895-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG token.datas done
2009-11-17 15:52:30.895-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG templateProfile.attributes done
2009-11-17 15:52:31.520-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG Do customization: true
2009-11-17 15:52:31.520-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG thinProvision: false
2009-11-17 15:52:31.520-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG Powering On After clone: false
2009-11-17 15:52:31.520-0600 INFO SCRIPTING_LOG VimResourcePool
2009-11-17 15:52:31.551-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG Doing Sysprep: true
2009-11-17 15:52:31.582-0600 INFO SCRIPTING_LOG Found at least 1 nics
2009-11-17 15:52:31.582-0600 INFO SCRIPTING_LOG TypeError: Cannot read property "name" from null (Workflow:Clone VM from Properties / Get Nic1 Values (item15)#2)
2009-11-17 15:52:31.582-0600 WARN WorkflowItemTaskRunner Script execution error on workflow : Provision one VM / 'Get Nic1 Values'(item15) : TypeError: Cannot read property "name" from null (Workflow:Clone VM from Properties / Get Nic1 Values (item15)#2)
2009-11-17 15:52:31.614-0600 INFO SCRIPTING_LOG TypeError: Cannot set property "isFree" of null to "true" (Workflow:Provision VM / Free IP Address (item10)#9772)
2009-11-17 15:52:31.614-0600 WARN WorkflowItemTaskRunner Script execution error on workflow : Provision one VM / 'Free IP Address'(item10) : TypeError: Cannot set property "isFree" of null to "true" (Workflow:Provision VM / Free IP Address (item10)#9772)
2009-11-17 15:52:31.707-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG (com.vmware.lcm/setTokenStateAndSave) Changing primary Token state from create to create
2009-11-17 15:52:31.707-0600 DEBUG SCRIPTING_LOG (com.vmware.lcm/setTokenStateAndSave) Changing secondary Token state from creatingVM to errorCreating

This happens to every template I try to deploy from. The used to work fine, and nothing in the environment has change other than going to LCM 1.0.2.

Re: Placement of Request Fails

3. Nov 18, 2009 1:51 AM in response to: sstover
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Todor Todorov
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Nov 19, 2007
Hi sstover,

Can you give a little bit more information on your setup? What VC version are you using (2.5 or 4.0)? Is your request going through manual or through auto placement? How are your LCM network objects configured - using DHCP or using static IPs? When you reproduce your issue again can you please dump somehow the contents of several DB tables in order to debug your problem: LCM_TOKEN, LCM_TOKEN_DATA, NET_NETWORK_DOMAIN. From the logs you provided we can see where the exact problem is, however, without getting your DB data we can isolate the problem further.

Thanks and regards,
Todor

Re: Placement of Request Fails

4. Nov 18, 2009 2:04 AM in response to: Todor Todorov
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Todor Todorov
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Nov 19, 2007
Hi again,

One more question: when you're placing (automatically or manually) the request are you using a Domain or a Workgroup object? And if you're using a Domain with what networks is it associated?

Regards,
Todor

Re: Placement of Request Fails

5. Nov 18, 2009 1:01 PM in response to: Todor Todorov
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sstover
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Apr 15, 2009
Todor,

Here are the answers to your questions.

1. My Virtual Center is v2.5 u4.
2. I am using the manual placement method.
3. The network object uses DHCP (although I tried it static and it failed as well)
4. When placing I am using a Domain (I also tried a workgroup and it failed)

I emailed you the SQL tables you requested as well as the network associated with my domain. I also sent the tail end of the server.log file in case you neeed it.

Thanks

Re: Placement of Request Fails

6. Nov 20, 2009 5:38 AM in response to: sstover
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Todor Todorov
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Nov 19, 2007
Hi sstover,

Can you share how your criteria mappings are configured - are you using same criteria for all objects or not?
Will it be possible to send a dump from tables LCM_INF_ELEMENT and LCM_CRITERIA_VALUE_INF_ELEMENT?
When you're making the manual placement which objects are you selecting during the wizard?
While we're investigating the problem further can you try to associate all objects (especially networks and domains) with the same criteria and try again to see if this fixes the issue?

Thanks and regards,
Todor

Re: Placement of Request Fails

7. Nov 23, 2009 9:31 AM in response to: Todor Todorov
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sstover
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Apr 15, 2009
Todor,

I have included the requested tables. To answer your questions I have
two environments based on geographic location. My criteria is set to
reflect that.

Locations (2):

CCC Development
MOB

However I have not added any inventory objects from the MOB location
because I can't even get CCC Development to deploy machines.

All of my Criteria mappings I have right now are to allow CCC
Development to all inventory objects but not MOB.

I have eliminated my Add to Domain inventory object and just have it
joing a workgroup. Until I can get that to work there is no reason to
try to join a domain.
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