Cannot provision machines for linked clones

[ipalikuca]

I have Horizon 7.6, vcenter 6.7, ESXi (single host) 6.7, Nimble Storage array connected to my host. I cannot provision linked clones, process fails at exactly same point each time. I do have opened case with vmware but support does not seem to have an answer to my problem. My horizon shows following error:

View Composer Fault: ExceptionTruncatedFault

Looking at logs on ESXi host, i can see that there is issue reading vmdk for my replica vm that gets created:

OBJLIB-FILEBE : FileBEOpen: can't open '/vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56.vmdk' : Could not find the file (393218)

And I am not sure why does this happen when account connected to vsphere is administrator (full rights), vcenter is connected to ESXi host using root account. Full log is below. Any ideas?

2018-10-04T13:29:15.964Z info vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=NfcManager opID=77b48957-01-c] Pre-processing copy spec LOCAL:ds:///vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/PH-W10-LC/PH-W10-LC.vmdk -> LOCAL:ds:///vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56.vmdk

2018-10-04T13:29:15.973Z info vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=77b48957-01-c] OBJLIB-FILEBE : FileBEOpen: can't open '/vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56.vmdk' : Could not find the file (393218).

2018-10-04T13:29:15.973Z info vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=DiskLib opID=77b48957-01-c] DISKLIB-DSCPTR: DescriptorOpenInt: failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56.vmdk': Could not find the file (60002)

2018-10-04T13:29:15.973Z info vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=DiskLib opID=77b48957-01-c] DISKLIB-LINK  : "/vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).

2018-10-04T13:29:15.973Z info vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=DiskLib opID=77b48957-01-c] DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).

2018-10-04T13:29:15.973Z info vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=DiskLib opID=77b48957-01-c] DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56.vmdk' with flags 0x20f The system cannot find the file specified (25).

2018-10-04T13:29:15.973Z warning vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=77b48957-01-c] [NFC ERROR] NfcFileDskOpenDisk: Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56.vmdk': The system cannot find the file specified (25).

2018-10-04T13:29:15.973Z warning vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=77b48957-01-c] [NFC ERROR] NfcFile_Open: Open failed:

2018-10-04T13:29:15.973Z warning vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=77b48957-01-c] [NFC ERROR] NfcFile_GetInfo: Failed to open file

2018-10-04T13:29:15.973Z info vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=NfcManager opID=77b48957-01-c] Pre-processing copy spec LOCAL:ds:///vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/PH-W10-LC/PH-W10-LC-Snapshot1.vmsn -> LOCAL:ds:///vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56-Snapshot1.vmsn

2018-10-04T13:29:15.976Z warning vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=77b48957-01-c] [NFC ERROR] NfcFile_Open: Open failed:

2018-10-04T13:29:15.976Z warning vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=77b48957-01-c] [NFC ERROR] NfcFile_GetInfo: Failed to open file

2018-10-04T13:29:15.976Z info vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=NfcManager opID=77b48957-01-c] Initiating transfer for copy spec [ds:///vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/PH-W10-LC/PH-W10-LC.vmdk -> ds:///vmfs/volumes/5bb5e761-166cfddc-6ed3-000af7b87a1c/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56/replica-2d98247e-311d-4e73-ab0d-1800b4f47a56.vmdk]

2018-10-04T13:29:15.980Z info vpxa[2102035] [Originator@6876 sub=DiskLib opID=77b48957-01-c] DISKLIB-LIB_CLONE   : Failed to clone disk using Object Cloning

[ipalikuca · Accepted solution]

There was a mislead from vmware support that issue is on ESXi host. Turns out problem was solved by reinstalling Viewcomposer. After this piece everything works just fine.

[vijeeshtk]

I do have the same issue in my Horizon 7.6, i did the re-installation of view composer bit still no luck. Can you please explain what steps you have done for re-installing view composer ?

[Dell_Technologi]

I hit the same issue as well. I'm cloning VM inside NFS4.1 datastore and failed.

2018-11-15T19:21:39.298Z verbose vpxa[5E3EB70] [Originator@6876 sub=NfcManager opID=ProvisioningWizard-addMulti-601796-ngc:70043801-a6-01-bb] [NfcWorker] Added FileInfo: /vmfs/volumes/75143b6e-f43a1776-0000-000000000000/NewWinServer2K16/NewWinServer2K16-000002.vmdk -> /vmfs/volumes/75143b6e-f43a1776-0000-000000000000/Test1/Test1.vmdk, type = 2, size = 42949672960, flags = 4232, storagePolicy = ''

2018-11-15T19:21:39.298Z verbose vpxa[5E3EB70] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyProvider opID=ProvisioningWizard-addMulti-601796-ngc:70043801-a6-01-bb] RecordOp ASSIGN: info.progress, task-14911. Applied change to temp map.

2018-11-15T19:21:39.299Z verbose vpxa[5E3EB70] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyProvider opID=ProvisioningWizard-addMulti-601796-ngc:70043801-a6-01-bb] [CommitChangesAndNotify] Updating cached values

2018-11-15T19:21:39.316Z info vpxa[5E3EB70] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=ProvisioningWizard-addMulti-601796-ngc:70043801-a6-01-bb] OBJLIB-FILEBE : FileBEOpen: can't open '/vmfs/volumes/75143b6e-f43a1776-0000-000000000000/Test1/Test1.vmdk' : Could not find the file (393218).