Creating a deployment fails with "Failed to get existing partitions"

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Service

Issue/Introduction

When creating a deployment, (as part of an Apply Changes to deploy a product or even as part of a smoke test), you can see following error. 

Task 5449602 | 23:10:53 | L executing post-stop: server/########-####-####-####-######## (2) (00:01:08)
                        L Error: Action Failed get_task: Task ########-####-####-####-############ result: Adjusting persistent disk partitioning: Failed to determine whether partitions need rezising: Failed to get existing partitions: Running parted print: Running command: 'parted -m /dev/sdc unit B print', stdout: '
                                                                          
', stderr: 'Error: Error opening /dev/sdc: No such device or address
': exit status 1
Task 5449602 | 23:11:51 | Error: Action Failed get_task: Task ########-####-####-####-############ result: Adjusting persistent disk partitioning: Failed to determine whether partitions need rezising: Failed to get existing partitions: Running parted print: Running command: 'parted -m /dev/sdc unit B print', stdout: '
                                                                          
', stderr: 'Error: Error opening /dev/sdc: No such device or address
': exit status 1

Environment

 

 

Resolution

The error lines indicates that the storage is having some kind of issue. Contact your storage team so they can solve it and run Apply Changes again afterwards.