Greetings,
We stood up a vCAC 6.0.1 proof-of-concept environment back in August. We're in the process of deploying vRA 6.1.1 in an upper environment, but we still have the PoC environment. We upgraded the PoC environment to 6.1.1 -- the software upgrades went smoothly with no issues. After the upgrades were complete, we also addressed these issues:
Slow AD Login times -- we applied the fix detailed here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=209080...
Our tenant was bit by the account lockout timebomb, which we fixed by following this: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=207501...
We then went to deploy a VM from a tried and true blueprint, and all of our build attempts are failing on the WFStubBuildingMachine. I can provide details and error codes if you think it would be helpful, but I'm hoping that somebody out there can provide some knowledge around what has changed around the execution of WFStubBuildingMachine in 6.1.1.
We have several vCO workflows and custom code packaged into WFStubBuildingMachine. Much of the customizations in this workflow stub involve the Daily Hypervisor custom hostname plug-in (http://dailyhypervisor.com/vcloud-automation-center-vcac-5-2-custom-hostnaming-extension/), the Infoblox IPAM plug-in, and hand-offs between them. Here's a brief description of what we have going in WFStubBuildingMachine:
Again, it was a PoC, analogous to a movie set that is intended to be torn down after the film has been aired. This assembly of custom code was rock solid in 6.0.1. I'm struggling to find information that will help us zero-in on what exactly is breaking after the upgrade to 6.1.1. Hopefully one of you geniuses can give us some information on what changed in 6.1.1 or some ideas on where to zero-in. Absent that, it looks like we'll be reverse-engineering everything that went into WFStubBuildingMachine, and that could be a significant effort.
This is the error that the IaaS box is throwing:
Message: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<boolean>false</boolean>
Workflow 'WFStubBuildingMachine' failed with the following exception:
System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceResponse DynamicOps.Repository.RepositoryServiceContext.SaveChanges()'.
at DynamicOps.Cdk.Activities.SetMachineProperty.Execute(CodeActivityContext context)
at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager)
at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)
Category: Error
Priority: -1
EventId: 0
Severity: Error
Title:
Machine: LBW01HCPAP306
App Domain: DynamicOps.DEM.exe
ProcessId: 2676
Process Name: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Distributed Execution Manager\DEM\DynamicOps.DEM.exe
Thread Name:
Win32 ThreadId:5636
Extended Properties:
Thanks in advance for your help!
Although this may not solve your particular problem, you will want to check out this KB article (2088838) if you are doing any customization workflows in 6.1.
Thanks kericmiles for the reply! Sadly this didn't fix our issue, but I appreciate the input!
Out of curiosity what version of vCO are you running? You did update the vCO plugin to the 6.1 version correct? I saw the other link someone suggested you take a look at and that workflow package goes along with the 6.1 plugin but I figured I would ask just in case.
We upgraded vCO from 5.5.1 (build 1617225) to 5.5.2.1951762 (5.5.2.1946710). And yes, we did update the vCAC plug-in for vCO to the 6.1 version. Thanks for the reply...
During our deployment of 6.1 & vco 5.5.2 we also got the WFStubBuildingMachine failing,
I found this KB article that fixed our issue...
Hope this helps, regards,
John,
It's worth checking out this issue we ran into (post link can be found below). It's a slightly different error message, but also related to WFStubBuildingMachine. Just passing it along in case it comes in handy. Engineering is still working on a permanent fix for us but the fix noted in the post has kept us running in the mean time.
Stub workflow WFStubBuildingMachine fails after upgrading to 6.1