"PBM FAULT" error when refreshing storage policies and unable to apply storage profiles.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• You are unable to refresh storage policies.
• When you attempt to create a new storage profile, you receive an error similar to:

PbmFault Cause: PbmFault

• When creating storage policies, properly tagged datastore clusters and datastore objects fail the compatibility check.
• In the sps.log file, you see the entries similar to:

2017-10-17T15:37:58.354Z [pool-17-thread-1] DEBUG opId=a671a144-c26d-40f7-99ba-cfd71fb5060b com.vmware.sps.pbm.placement.VasaProcessor - VasaProcessor processing matching request...
2017-10-17T15:37:58.375Z [pool-17-thread-1] ERROR opId=a671a144-c26d-40f7-99ba-cfd71fb5060b com.vmware.pbm.placement.impl.PlacementSolverImpl - Exception occurred during compatibility check:
java.util.NoSuchElementException
        at java.util.StringTokenizer.nextToken(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.sps.qs.QsQueryTemplate.getMoRefFromQsId(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.sps.qs.InventoryServiceImpl.getDatastoreTypes(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.sps.pbm.placement.VasaProcessor.process(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.sps.pbm.placement.PlacementHubFinderImpl.findMatchingDatastore(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.sps.pbm.placement.PlacementHubFinderImpl.findMatchingPod(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.sps.pbm.placement.PlacementHubFinderImpl.findMatchingHubInt(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.sps.pbm.placement.PlacementHubFinderImpl.findMatchingHub(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.pbm.placement.impl.PlacementSolverImpl.checkCompatibility(PlacementSolverImpl.java:230)
        at com.vmware.pbm.placement.impl.PlacementSolverImpl.queryMatchingHub(PlacementSolverImpl.java:99)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor193.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.server.impl.InvocationTask.run(InvocationTask.java:66)
        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.server.common.impl.RunnableWrapper$1.run(RunnableWrapper.java:48)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2017-10-17T15:37:58.375Z [pool-17-thread-1] ERROR opId=a671a144-c26d-40f7-99ba-cfd71fb5060b com.vmware.pbm.placement.impl.PlacementSolverImpl - Exception during queryMatchingHub:
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: (pbm.fault.PBMFault) {
   faultCause = null, 

Environment

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 6.5.x

Cause

The issue occurs if the SDRS cluster has datastores more than 50.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, re-configure the SDRS cluster to include less than 50 datastores.