Unable to move VMs betwen vApps due to NullPointerException error in VMware Cloud Director

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

When attempting to move a VM between vApps the following error is received:

In the vcloud-container-info.log:

2024-09-24 20:55:39,992 | ERROR    | Backend-activity-pool-123 | LinkVMsToTargetVAppActivity    | [Activity Execution] Error getting result of Move VM activity...

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.vmware.vcloud.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.run(ActivityRunner.java:136)

Cause

Issue is caused by missing VM records in the database.

Resolution

Please open a support request and reference this article.