BUG: VlanID always zero for vSwitch PortGroups

[schistad]

After upgrading vCO 5.5 to 5.5.1 I discovered to my dismay that it is now impossible to retrieve the vlan ID for a traditional portgroup; the reported vlanId is now always '0' (not null or undefined).

This is clearly a bug, and in my case it breaks all sorts of things.

I use the following code, which worked in 5.5:

var hosts=Server.findAllForType("VC:HostSystem");

var host=hosts[0];

allpg=host.config.network.portgroup

for (var n=0; n<allpg.length;n++) {

  spec=allpg[n].spec;

  var pgvlan=spec.vlanId

  pgname=spec.name

  System.log("Portgroup "+pgname+" has vlan "+pgvlan)

}

As of version 5.5.1, the vlan ID returned is always 0.

[Burke- · Accepted solution]

This is an issue with the inventory service. You can tell vCO to NOT use the inventory service by adding the following line to vmo.properties, then restarting your vco-server service:

com.vmware.o11n.vim.useInventoryService=false

VMware is aware of the issue and will resolve it in a future release. Until then, you can use the vmo.properties setting as a work-around

[cdecanini_]

Have you opened a support request for this ?

[schistad]

Well, if I disable the inventory service I can't even access vcenter:

• ch.dunes.util.DunesServerException: Could not initialize class com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.VimPluginFactory

Which is bad

[cdecanini_]

Then you definitely need to open an SR in case this is a known issue with a fix.

[schistad]

Yep, I did open an issue immediately after posting the thread here on the community.

[schistad]

Okay, I tried removing and readding one of my vcenters and either that, or the second restart of the vCO server, actually helped.

So now I am able to both access the vCenter inventory (whew) and the portgroupSpec contains the correct vlanId.

Thank you very much, Burke - that was a very quick response, impressive work

[cdecanini_]

It seems that leveraging the inventory service has been the source of a lot of gaps like this one. You should be all set now.