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January 13th, 2016 08:00

VPLEX VASA Provider appliance fails to start webservice

I downloaded the latest VPLEX VASA Appliance OVA with the intention of adding our Metro clusters (5.3) to vCenter

This is version VPlex-5.5.1.00.00.05-vasa.ova released on 4 jan 2016

I followed the procedure outlined in Solve Desktop tool. (which is written for the 5.0 version in mind, btw)

I installed it and registered both VPLEX clusters to it.

But when I try to add the provider to vCenter, I get the following error:

"A problem was encountered while registering the provider"

vCenter Logs show that it starts the registration ok, but then when it tries to retrieve any data from it, it gets a 404 response back.

2016-01-13 16:05:31,814 [pool-7-thread-7] DEBUG opId=953DBC0C-0000000F com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VersionHandler - [populateProviderVersionAndServiceLocation] Could not find supported VASA version information. Provider could be a VASA 1.0 provider. Using input url as service location https:// :8443/vasa/services/vasaService

2016-01-13 16:05:31,814 [pool-7-thread-7] INFO opId=953DBC0C-0000000F com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl - [setup] Connecting to Provider Service URL : https:// :8443/vasa/services/vasaService

2016-01-13 16:05:31,814 [pool-7-thread-7] DEBUG opId=953DBC0C-0000000F com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl - [initServices] Initializing services for provider with url -https:// :8443/vasa/services/vasaService

2016-01-13 16:05:31,848 [pool-7-thread-7] INFO opId=953DBC0C-0000000F org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPSender - Unable to sendViaPost to url[https:// :8443/vasa/services/vasaService]

org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: Transport error: 404 Error: Not Found

I checked the URL and indeed, the page gives back no data at all:

On the Vasa Provider appliance, if I check the log

/opt/emc/vplex/vasa/apache-tomcat-8.0.12/logs/localhost.2016-01-13.log , I can see that Catalina is thowing 2 exceptions constantly.

13-Jan-2016 15:55:49.707 SEVERE [http-nio-8443-exec-2] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log StandardWrapper.Throwable

java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMAttributeImpl.setAttributeType(Ljava/lang/String;)V

at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXBuilder.processAttributes(StAXBuilder.java:230)

at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.populateOMElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:396)

at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.createOMElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:425)

at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.createNextOMElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:282)

at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:207)

at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMDocumentImpl.getOMDocumentElement(OMDocumentImpl.java:132)

at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.getDocumentElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:502)

at org.apache.axis2.util.XMLUtils.toOM(XMLUtils.java:602)

at org.apache.axis2.util.XMLUtils.toOM(XMLUtils.java:581)

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DescriptionBuilder.buildOM(DescriptionBuilder.java:97)

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.AxisConfigBuilder.populateConfig(AxisConfigBuilder.java:88)

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentEngine.populateAxisConfiguration(DeploymentEngine.java:703)

at org.apache.axis2.deployment.WarBasedAxisConfigurator. (WarBasedAxisConfigurator.java:157)

at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.initConfigContext(AxisServlet.java:525)

at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.init(AxisServlet.java:443)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1241)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1154)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:827)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:135)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)

at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:616)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:142)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:610)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:534)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1081)

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:658)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11NioProtocol.java:222)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1566)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1523)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

13-Jan-2016 15:55:49.708 SEVERE [http-nio-8443-exec-2] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke Allocate exception for servlet AxisServlet