This article describes a specific issue in vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3d and vCenter Server 6.7 pre-Update 3r
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Symptoms:
2022-04-08T10:41:02.492Z data-app-collector-vsphere.adc.7_0U3 ERROR phservice.provider.common.internal.SafeDataProvidersConnectionWrapper Error while getting the data providers list from: com.vmware.ph.phservice.provider.appliance.ApplianceDataProvidersConnection java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to locate VAPI URI.
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.common.vapi.client.CisContextVapiClientBuilder.build(CisContextVapiClientBuilder.java:84)
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.provider.appliance.internal.BaseApplianceDataProviderConnection.getVapiClient(BaseApplianceDataProviderConnection.java:54)
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.provider.appliance.vmon.VmonDataProvidersConnection.getDataProviders(VmonDataProvidersConnection.java:35)
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.provider.common.internal.CompositeDataProvidersConnection.getDataProviders(CompositeDataProvidersConnection.java:40)
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.provider.appliance.ApplianceDataProvidersConnection.getDataProviders(ApplianceDataProvidersConnection.java:35)
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.provider.common.internal.SafeDataProvidersConnectionWrapper.getDataProviders(SafeDataProvidersConnectionWrapper.java:51)
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.provider.common.internal.CompositeDataProvidersConnection.getDataProviders(CompositeDataProvidersConnection.java:40)
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.provider.vsphere.VSphereDataProvidersConnection.getDataProviders(VSphereDataProvidersConnection.java:86)
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.collector.core.DefaultQueryServiceConnection.getQueryService(DefaultQueryServiceConnection.java:67)
at com.vmware.cis.data.internal.adapters.dsvapi.SharedDsDefaultingQueryServiceConnectionFactory$SharedQueryServiceConnection.getQueryService(SharedDsDefaultingQueryServiceConnectionFactory.java:125)
at com.vmware.ph.phservice.cloud.dataapp.internal.collector.SpecsCollector.collect(SpecsCollector.java:77)