Third Party Monitoring tool causes vpxd to continually crash

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading to vCenter 8.0.3 some environments may experience vpxd continually crashing and core.vpxd-worker.******* files being created in /var/core.

Environment

8.0.3

Cause

If vCenter server database has a NULL value for datastore mount path, then third party monitoring tools attempting to monitor and query vCenter for stats information will cause the crash to occur.

In vpxd logs can see the stats query:

2024-08-10T19:52:56.682Z info vpxd[282587] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxLro opID=6cdb2cd6] [VpxLRO] -- BEGIN lro-24332 -- PerfMgr -- vim.PerformanceManager.queryStats -- ********-****-****-****-*********

Resolution

Current workaround is to disable the third party monitoring tool that's querying the vCenter.

A permanent fix for this issue is currently in development.