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Failed to deploy from blueprint: Error requesting machine.INNER EXCEPTION: Nullable object must have a value.

vRA 6.2.1-2543390

Trying to deploy any blueprint in a tenant I get the following error as the requester:

"A server error was encountered Error requesting machine. Nullable object must have a value.."

Looking in the log viewer I get:

"Error requesting machine.INNER EXCEPTION: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.INNER EXCEPTION: Error requesting machine.INNER EXCEPTION: Nullable object must have a value."

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From the C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Web\Logs\Repository log on the IaaS server I can see the blueprint request and the following stack trace:

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - MachineRequest :<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

<MachineRequest xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

  <TemplateId>2e2cc4cb-c867-4290-8419-77489755d0c0</TemplateId>

  <GroupId>f4ac2e16-8b0a-47ea-94bb-455d0155f44b</GroupId>

  <RequestingUser>jmedd@vrademo.local</RequestingUser>

  <Owner>jmedd@vrademo.local</Owner>

  <Reason>This is the reason</Reason>

  <Properties>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>false</IsRuntime>

      <Name>__Notes</Name>

      <Value>Testing</Value>

    </NameValue>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>false</IsRuntime>

      <Name>provisioningGroupId</Name>

      <Value>f4ac2e16-8b0a-47ea-94bb-455d0155f44b</Value>

    </NameValue>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>false</IsRuntime>

      <Name>VirtualMachine.LeaseDays</Name>

      <Value>100</Value>

    </NameValue>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>false</IsRuntime>

      <Name>blueprintId</Name>

      <Value>2e2cc4cb-c867-4290-8419-77489755d0c0</Value>

    </NameValue>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>false</IsRuntime>

      <Name>VirtualMachine.CPU.Count</Name>

      <Value>1</Value>

    </NameValue>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>false</IsRuntime>

      <Name>VirtualMachine.Disk0.Size</Name>

      <Value>16</Value>

    </NameValue>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>true</IsRuntime>

      <Name>Custom.Domain</Name>

      <Value>child.vrademo.local</Value>

    </NameValue>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>false</IsRuntime>

      <Name>VirtualMachine.Memory.Size</Name>

      <Value>2048</Value>

    </NameValue>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>false</IsRuntime>

      <Name>VirtualMachine.Disk0.IsClone</Name>

      <Value>true</Value>

    </NameValue>

    <NameValue>

      <IsEncrypted>false</IsEncrypted>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <IsRuntime>false</IsRuntime>

      <Name>__api.request.id</Name>

      <Value>2116a8fc-cf07-4827-8841-70d2e8495b1a</Value>

    </NameValue>

  </Properties>

</MachineRequest>

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - AllocateMachineRequest: 25da3edf-7dfe-4582-ac6e-49464775d41a: started initializing AllocateMachineRequest

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - AllocateMachineRequest: 25da3edf-7dfe-4582-ac6e-49464775d41a: completed initializing AllocateMachineRequest

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - AllocateReservationService: 25da3edf-7dfe-4582-ac6e-49464775d41a: started GetAvailableReservations

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - AllocateReservationService: 25da3edf-7dfe-4582-ac6e-49464775d41a: completed GetAvailableReservations

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - AllocateReservationService: 25da3edf-7dfe-4582-ac6e-49464775d41a: started loading 1 available reservations

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - AllocateReservationService: 25da3edf-7dfe-4582-ac6e-49464775d41a: completed loading 1 available reservations

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - AllocateReservationRequest: e78ecf77-025c-4cea-a322-fdfd1f5c4b21: started initializing AllocateReservationRequest

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - AllocateReservationRequest: e78ecf77-025c-4cea-a322-fdfd1f5c4b21: completed initializing AllocateReservationRequest

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Debug]: Thread-Id: 25 - Started deleting virtual machine record for: [None]

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Debug]: Thread-Id: 25 - Finished deleting virtual machine record for: [None]

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Error]: Thread-Id: 25 - Failed to submit request. Inner exception: Nullable object must have a value.

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Error]: Thread-Id: 25 - jmedd@vrademo.local

System.InvalidOperationException: Nullable object must have a value.

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateStorageReservations(AllocateMachineRequest request, AllocateReservationRequest currentReservation, Boolean requireExactPolicy)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateAvailableReservations(List`1 availableReservations, List`1 machineRequests, Boolean requireExactPolicy, StringBuilder infoErrorMsg)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateStorageReservations(List`1 availableReservations, List`1 requests)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateReservationByType(AllocateMachineRequest request)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateReservations(AllocateRequest request)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.<>c__DisplayClasse.<AllocateMachine>b__c()

   at DynamicOps.Common.RetryTransactionException.RetryIfNecessary(Action action)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.AllocateMachine(VirtualMachineTemplate template, ProvisioningGroup group, String owner, List`1 properties, Boolean isComponent, Boolean applyExpiresOverride, Nullable`1 expiresOverride, Nullable`1 networkScopeId, VirtualMachine masterMachine)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.SubmitMachineRequestByType(VirtualMachineTemplate template, ProvisioningGroup group, String owner, List`1 properties, List`1 originalRuntimeProperties)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.SubmitMachineRequest(MachineRequest request)

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:39 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Error]: Thread-Id: 25 - System.Data.Services.DataServiceException: Error requesting machine. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Data.Services.DataServiceException: Error requesting machine. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Nullable object must have a value.

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateStorageReservations(AllocateMachineRequest request, AllocateReservationRequest currentReservation, Boolean requireExactPolicy)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateAvailableReservations(List`1 availableReservations, List`1 machineRequests, Boolean requireExactPolicy, StringBuilder infoErrorMsg)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateStorageReservations(List`1 availableReservations, List`1 requests)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateReservationByType(AllocateMachineRequest request)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateReservations(AllocateRequest request)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.<>c__DisplayClasse.<AllocateMachine>b__c()

   at DynamicOps.Common.RetryTransactionException.RetryIfNecessary(Action action)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.AllocateMachine(VirtualMachineTemplate template, ProvisioningGroup group, String owner, List`1 properties, Boolean isComponent, Boolean applyExpiresOverride, Nullable`1 expiresOverride, Nullable`1 networkScopeId, VirtualMachine masterMachine)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.SubmitMachineRequestByType(VirtualMachineTemplate template, ProvisioningGroup group, String owner, List`1 properties, List`1 originalRuntimeProperties)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.SubmitMachineRequest(MachineRequest request)

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.SubmitMachineRequest(MachineRequest request)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.ManagementModelOperations.<SubmitVirtualMachineRequest>b__c(MachineRequest r, ManagementModelEntities d)

   at DynamicOps.Common.Entity.OperationInvoke`1.Execute[TRequest](Func`3 operation)

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)

   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments)

   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)

   at System.Data.Services.Providers.BaseServiceProvider.InvokeServiceOperation(ServiceOperation serviceOperation, Object[] parameters)

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

   at System.Data.Services.ErrorHandler.HandleTargetInvocationException(TargetInvocationException exception)

   at System.Data.Services.Providers.BaseServiceProvider.InvokeServiceOperation(ServiceOperation serviceOperation, Object[] parameters)

   at System.Data.Services.Providers.DataServiceProviderWrapper.InvokeServiceOperation(OperationWrapper serviceOperation, Object[] parameters)

   at System.Data.Services.RequestUriProcessor.ComposeExpressionForServiceOperation(SegmentInfo segment, IDataService service, Boolean checkRights, SegmentInfo lastSegment)

   at System.Data.Services.RequestUriProcessor.ComposeExpressionForSegments(IList`1 segments, IDataService service, Boolean isCrossReferencingUri)

   at System.Data.Services.RequestUriProcessor.ProcessRequestUri(Uri absoluteRequestUri, IDataService service, Boolean internalQuery)

   at System.Data.Services.DataService`1.HandleRequest()

INNER EXCEPTION: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Data.Services.DataServiceException: Error requesting machine. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Nullable object must have a value.

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateStorageReservations(AllocateMachineRequest request, AllocateReservationRequest currentReservation, Boolean requireExactPolicy)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateAvailableReservations(List`1 availableReservations, List`1 machineRequests, Boolean requireExactPolicy, StringBuilder infoErrorMsg)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateStorageReservations(List`1 availableReservations, List`1 requests)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateReservationByType(AllocateMachineRequest request)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.AllocateReservationService.AllocateReservations(AllocateRequest request)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.<>c__DisplayClasse.<AllocateMachine>b__c()

   at DynamicOps.Common.RetryTransactionException.RetryIfNecessary(Action action)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.AllocateMachine(VirtualMachineTemplate template, ProvisioningGroup group, String owner, List`1 properties, Boolean isComponent, Boolean applyExpiresOverride, Nullable`1 expiresOverride, Nullable`1 networkScopeId, VirtualMachine masterMachine)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.SubmitMachineRequestByType(VirtualMachineTemplate template, ProvisioningGroup group, String owner, List`1 properties, List`1 originalRuntimeProperties)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.SubmitMachineRequest(MachineRequest request)

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Services.ProvisionMachineService.SubmitMachineRequest(MachineRequest request)

   at DynamicOps.ManagementModel.ManagementModelOperations.<SubmitVirtualMachineRequest>b__c(MachineRequest r, ManagementModelEntities d)

   at DynamicOps.Common.Entity.OperationInvoke`1.Execute[TRequest](Func`3 operation)

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)

   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments)

   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)

   at System.Data.Services.Providers.BaseServiceProvider.InvokeServiceOperation(ServiceOperation serviceOperation, Object[] parameters)

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:41 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - Guid :<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

<guid>2e2cc4cb-c867-4290-8419-77489755d0c0</guid>

[UTC:2015-06-03 11:38:47 Local:2015-06-03 12:38] [Trace]: Thread-Id: 25 - Guid :<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

<guid>2e2cc4cb-c867-4290-8419-77489755d0c0</guid>

Any ideas on what could be the nullable object that requires a value?

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kumarankpl
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‎06-03-2015 05:48 AM
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Yep that seems to be the problem You can update using below query and see whether it works for you.

UPDATE [HostReservation] set StorageAllocationPolicyID = 4, CurrentStorageAllocationIndex = 0 , CurrentNetworkAllocationIndex =0

WHERE HostReservationName = '<Reservation Name>'

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kumarankpl
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‎06-03-2015 05:12 AM
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How did you create you reservation ? Through Infrastructure organizer ?

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jmedd
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‎06-03-2015 05:19 AM
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Programmatically via vRO. Using some code with the last line as vCACEntityManager.createModelEntity(vcacHost.id , modelName , entitySetName , properties , links , null)

A number of the properties and links were set to null. Is it one of those that is causing the problem perhaps?

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‎06-03-2015 05:22 AM
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Yep looks like that's the issue. Can you run the below query and check value for the below columns. This will help to see whats missing.


CurrentStorageAllocationIndex , CurrentNetworkAllocationIndex , StorageAllocationPolicyID.

SELECT *

FROM [vCAC].[dbo].[HostReservation]

WHERE HostReservationName = '<reservation-name>'


In the above query replace <reservation-name> with your reservation name ?

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‎06-03-2015 05:22 AM
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Forgot to tell try running against IAAS DB(sql server).

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‎06-03-2015 05:44 AM
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The values for all three columns are set to null. Looks like that is the problem then?

In another tenant (where deploying from Blueprints work), I created the Reservation through the vRA WebUI and the values are populated as:

CurrentStorageAllocationIndex - 7

CurrentNetworkAllocationIndex - 7

StorageAllocationPolicyID - 4

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Yep that seems to be the problem You can update using below query and see whether it works for you.

UPDATE [HostReservation] set StorageAllocationPolicyID = 4, CurrentStorageAllocationIndex = 0 , CurrentNetworkAllocationIndex =0

WHERE HostReservationName = '<Reservation Name>'

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‎06-03-2015 06:49 AM
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Outstanding! Thanks very much, it works now Smiley Happy

Do you have any information on what StorageAllocationPolicyID is? And also on what the value to set for it translates to?

I will need to set this value as part of programmatically creating the reservation, so need to know how to determine the value.

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‎06-03-2015 07:19 AM
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I don't have it handy. Will check the logic and let you know.

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‎06-03-2015 07:49 AM
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OK, thanks - that would be very helpful Smiley Happy

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