Error: class java.lang.NullPointerException when moving a VM from one vAPP another vAPP

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• You will get the below error in VCD UI when moving VM from one vAPP to another vAPP in same Org VDC.
  Error: class java.lang.NullPointerException 
• In the /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-debug.log file on the VMware Cloud Director Appliance cell, you see entries similar to:
  
  Internal server exception | requestId=########,request=POST <vcd_url>/api/vApp/vapp-#####-####_###/action/recomposeVApp,requestTime=########,remoteAddress=########,userAgent=Mozilla/5.0 (######; #####
##_##_#) AppleWebKit/5...,accept=application/*+xml;version ##.#.#-alpha
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.compute.vrp.GenericVirtualResourcePool.getVMValRef(GenericVirtualResourcePool.java:1121)
        at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.compute.vrp.GenericVirtualResourcePool.performAdmissionControl(GenericVirtualResourcePool.java:1887)
        at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.InternalResourceEntityServiceImpl.performAdmissionControlForInterVdcMove(InternalResourceEntityServiceImpl.java:785)
        at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.InternalResourceEntityServiceImpl.recomposeVApp(InternalResourceEntityServiceImpl.java:479)
        at com.vmware.vcloud.vdc.impl.VdcServiceImpl.recomposeVApp(VdcServiceImpl.java:1151)
  
  
  

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.5.X

Cause

This issue occurs when the id and cvm_id is different in vapp_vm table as the compute_fabric_handle joins based on vapp_vm.id. 

Resolution

Need to modify the VMware Database table. 

For a workaround, contact Broadcom Technical Support and note this Knowledge Article ID (406594) in the problem description.

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