Symptoms:
- Unable to deploy OVF template using content libraries, when choosing the compute resource an error appears "unable to process template":
- From the sps logs in the vCenter /var/log/vmware/vmware-sps/sps.log you see similar lines as below:
2023-11-20T13:59:24.691+02:00 [pool-4-thread-4] ERROR opId=lor09z63-1520372-auto-wl4l-h5:70250671-39-10-19 com.vmware.pbm.profile.impl.ProfileManagerImpl - Exception in query profile:
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
..
2023-11-20T19:05:26.070+02:00 [pool-36-thread-9] INFO opId=10dc25e8:be4c com.vmware.vim.sms.StorageManagerImpl - Timer stopped: queryStorageContainer, Time taken: 16 ms.
2023-11-20T19:05:27.317+02:00 [pool-27-thread-3] ERROR opId=sps-Main-742190-179 com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.alarm.AlarmDispatcher - Error: org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: self signed certificate occured as provider: https://ESXi_FQDN:9080/version.xml is offline
2023-11-20T19:05:30.512+02:00 [pool-27-thread-3] INFO opId=sps-Main-742190-179 com.vmware.vim.storage.common.util.OperationIdUtil - OperationID present in invoker thread, adding suffix and re-using it - sps-Main-742190-179-499930-468.