Error: "Bad Request" when configuring replications with seed VMs to an On-Premises site

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• When attempting to configure a protection or migration using a Seed VM from Cloud Director Availability Cloud to On-Premises, you see a message similar to:
  
  Bad Request
  
  
• In /opt/vmware/h4/cloud/log/cloud.log on the Cloud Director Availability Cloud source appliance, you see entries similar to:
  
2024-06-13 15:25:43.630 ERROR - [UI-a3cbba30-18d4-4ec8-8d29-ff71df329035-r4128-4E] [job-87] com.vmware.h4.jobengine.JobExecution     : Task 0fe73d32-6774-4930-8432-38b61faad430 (WorkflowInfo{type='start', resourceType='vmReplication', resourceId='C4-58f789f4-2bb2-4177-b13a-9227ea02412d', isPrivate=false, resourceName='null'}) has failed

  com.vmware.h4.api.error.exceptions.BadRequestException: Bad request.
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:77)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
        at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:499)
        at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:480)
        at com.vmware.h4.api.error.GenericServerExceptionProvider.get(GenericServerExceptionProvider.java:123)

• In /opt/vmware/h4/manager/log/manager.log on the Cloud Director Availability Cloud source appliance, you see entries similar to:
  
  

  2024-06-13 15:25:43.624 ERROR - [UI-a3cbba30-18d4-4ec8-8d29-ff71df329035-r4128-4E-sy] [https-jsse-nio-8044-exec-8] c.v.h.c.c.error.ExceptionAdvisorBase     : A POST request from tenant1@vCDA-EPG-Cloud[127.0.0.1] to /replications failed.

org.springframework.web.bind.MethodArgumentNotValidException: Validation failed for argument [1] in public com.vmware.h4.manager.api.model.H4ApiTask<com.vmware.h4.manager.api.replication.ReplicationInfo> com.vmware.h4.manager.controller.ReplicationController.configureReplication(java.util.Optional<java.lang.String>,com.vmware.h4.manager.api.replication.StartReplicationSettings,java.util.Optional<java.lang.String>):
[Field error in object 'startReplicationSettings' on field 'seedVm.vcId': rejected value [null]; codes [NotNull.startReplicationSettings.seedVm.vcId,NotNull.seedVm.vcId,NotNull.vcId,NotNull.java.lang.String,NotNull]; arguments [org.springframework.context.support.DefaultMessageSourceResolvable: codes [startReplicationSettings.seedVm.vcId,seedVm.vcId]; arguments []; default message [seedVm.vcId]]; default message [must not be null]]
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.resolveArgument(RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.java:141)
        at org.springframework.web.method.support.HandlerMethodArgumentResolverComposite.resolveArgument(HandlerMethodArgumentResolverComposite.java:122)
        at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.getMethodArgumentValues(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:179)
        at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:146)

   Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.

Environment

VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.x

Cause

This issue occurs due to the vcid not being sent from the Cloud site to the On-Premises site when starting protections / migrations using seed VM's.

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting Cloud Director Availability 4.7.X

This issue is resolved in Cloud Director Availability 4.7.2 available at Broadcom Downloads.

Workaround

To workaround this issue avoid using seed VM's for Cloud Director Availability Cloud to On-Premises Protections / Migrations