Hey folks,
I can't seem to unregister an Hitachi VASA storage provider. We're using VCenter Appliance version 6.5 (build 8667236).
I've tried a sync, rescan, unregister... but with no success.
Here's what I see in the logs (/var/log/vmware/vmware-sps/sps.log):
2018-06-14T12:36:30.439-04:00 [pool-22-thread-5] DEBUG opId=StorageProvidersViewMediator-apply-17929-ngc:70002804 com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl - Received API Call: sync
2018-06-14T12:36:30.439-04:00 [pool-22-thread-5] INFO opId=StorageProvidersViewMediator-apply-17929-ngc:70002804 com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl - VasaProviderImpl.scheduleSyncTask for vpId=49a83597-d674-4097-b718-85de18b9b8ab, arrayId=null and syncType=PROVIDER
2018-06-14T12:36:30.439-04:00 [pool-22-thread-5] DEBUG opId=StorageProvidersViewMediator-apply-17929-ngc:70002804 com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl - Validating VP 49a83597-d674-4097-b718-85de18b9b8ab schemas
2018-06-14T12:36:30.439-04:00 [pool-22-thread-5] ERROR opId=StorageProvidersViewMediator-apply-17929-ngc:70002804 com.vmware.vim.sms.policy.SyncPolicyManager - Provider 49a83597-d674-4097-b718-85de18b9b8ab is not active!!!
2018-06-14T12:36:30.439-04:00 [pool-22-thread-5] ERROR opId=StorageProvidersViewMediator-apply-17929-ngc:70002804 com.vmware.sps.vp.VasaProviderValidatorImpl - Unable to retrieve capability schemas from VP 49a83597-d674-4097-b718-85de18b9b8ab
com.vmware.vim.sms.fault.ProviderNotActiveException: Provider 49a83597-d674-4097-b718-85de18b9b8ab is not active!!!
at com.vmware.vim.sms.policy.SyncPolicyManager.getProviderAndCheckIsActive(SyncPolicyManager.java:126)
at com.vmware.vim.sms.policy.SyncPolicyManager.queryCapabilitySchema(SyncPolicyManager.java:86)
at com.vmware.vim.sms.policy.PolicyManagerImpl.queryCapabilitySchema(PolicyManagerImpl.java:270)
at com.vmware.sps.vp.VasaProviderValidatorImpl.retrieveCapabilitySchemas(VasaProviderValidatorImpl.java:90)
at com.vmware.sps.vp.VasaProviderValidatorImpl.validate(VasaProviderValidatorImpl.java:67)
at com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.validation.VasaProviderValidationManagerImpl.validateVasaProvider(VasaProviderValidationManagerImpl.java:87)
at com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl.validateSchemas(VasaProviderImpl.java:1883)
at com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl.scheduleSyncTask(VasaProviderImpl.java:1924)
at com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl.sync(VasaProviderImpl.java:1700)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.server.impl.InvocationTask.run(InvocationTask.java:65)
at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.server.common.impl.RunnableWrapper$1.run(RunnableWrapper.java:47)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
2018-06-14T12:36:30.439-04:00 [pool-22-thread-5] ERROR opId=StorageProvidersViewMediator-apply-17929-ngc:70002804 com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl - Validation for VP 49a83597-d674-4097-b718-85de18b9b8ab failed with error com.vmware.vim.sms.fault.ProviderValidationException: com.vmware.vim.sms.fault.ProviderNotActiveException: Provider 49a83597-d674-4097-b718-85de18b9b8ab is not active!!!, setting status to syncError and also re-scheduling the timer sync
2018-06-14T12:36:30.440-04:00 [pool-22-thread-5] DEBUG opId=StorageProvidersViewMediator-apply-17929-ngc:70002804 com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.VasaProviderImpl - [setStatus] For provider https://132.207.180.48:50001/version.xml, new status is equal to the current status : syncError
2018-06-14T12:36:30.545-04:00 [pool-24-thread-6] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17930-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.security.CommonActivationValidator - Validating session using session cookie...
2018-06-14T12:36:30.552-04:00 [pool-22-thread-6] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17930-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl - [queryArray] Received API Call: queryArray
2018-06-14T12:36:30.552-04:00 [pool-22-thread-6] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17930-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.sms.query.QueryManagerImpl - [getStorageArrays] Fetching for providerIds null
2018-06-14T12:36:30.562-04:00 [pool-24-thread-7] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17931-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.security.CommonActivationValidator - Validating session using session cookie...
2018-06-14T12:36:30.568-04:00 [pool-22-thread-7] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17931-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.util.SimpleTimeCounter - TIMER STARTED: queryProvider
2018-06-14T12:36:30.568-04:00 [pool-22-thread-7] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17931-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.ProviderCache - [queryProvider] Returning result of size - 4
2018-06-14T12:36:30.569-04:00 [pool-22-thread-7] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17931-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.util.SimpleTimeCounter - TIMER STOPPED: queryProvider, TIME TAKEN: 1 ms.
2018-06-14T12:36:30.579-04:00 [pool-24-thread-8] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17932-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.security.CommonActivationValidator - Validating session using session cookie...
2018-06-14T12:36:30.588-04:00 [pool-24-thread-9] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17933-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.security.CommonActivationValidator - Validating session using session cookie...
2018-06-14T12:36:30.598-04:00 [pool-24-thread-10] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17934-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.security.CommonActivationValidator - Validating session using session cookie...
2018-06-14T12:36:30.608-04:00 [pool-24-thread-1] DEBUG opId=dam-auto-generated: StorageProvidersViewMediator:dr-1311:SmsPropertyProvider:200127:5198-17935-ngc:70002805 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.security.CommonActivationValidator - Validating session using session cookie...
2018-06-14T12:36:55.698-04:00 [pool-13-thread-1] DEBUG opId=sps-SHPoller-992235-84 com.vmware.vim.sms.health.ServiceHealthPoller - Certificate expiry check succeeded!
Anyone have any ideas? I opened a support case with VMWare... but almost days later, I've not yet spoken to a storage engineer.
Thank You!