After upgrading vRealize Orchestrator to 7.4 or any following version, NSX 6.x plug-in may not work.

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• After upgrading vRealize Orchestrator from a version below 7.4 to a new version ( > 7.4), NSX 6.x plug-in may not work,  exception message is seen :

Exception thrown: 'org/apache/commons/beanutils/Converter'

• Methods which uses commons-beanutils-1.9.3.jar Lib are affected, for example NSX plug-in

Environment

VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.4.x
VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.x
VMware vRealize Automation 7.x
VMware vRealize Automation 7.4.x

Cause

This issue occurs due to commons-beanutils-1.9.3.jar library being removed from vRealize Orchestrator 7.4. Some operations in NSX plug-in depends on this library.

Resolution

Currently, there is no resolution.

Workaround:
To workaround this issue, refer the steps:

Note: Take a snapshot / backup of vRO appliance

1. Download the commons-beanutils-1.9.3.jar file attached to this article.
2. Connect to vRO appliance using WinSCP or any similar file transfer client with root access. 
3. Copy the file to the location /usr/lib/vco/app-server/deploy/vco/WEB-INF/lib/
4. SSH to vRO as root user and change the owner of the copied jar:

chown vco:vco /usr/lib/vco/app-server/deploy/vco/WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils-1.9.3.jar

5. Restart vRO server
6. Apply steps 1-5 to all nodes in a cluster