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Monitoring of vSphere 4.x fails with Veeam MP v7

KB ID: 1917
Product: Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center
Version: 7.x
Published: 2014-08-08
Last Modified: 2020-08-28
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Challenge

Though everything is configured correctly and you have successfully added vCenter 4.x or standalone ESX 4.x to Veeam Extensions as a Monitoring target,
no data is shown in SCOM and you can see "Veeam VMware Collector: VMware connection is unavailable" alerts .
 
Additionally, the following errors are logged in the vmspi.log file (you can export logs as described here):
 
1) In case vCenter 4.x is connected:
 
 [0030] VimCL+** [CL100] , target=name_of_VC
 [0030] EXCOL+** [VP120] retrieveHostProperties failed,    at nworksCore.Collectors.VimClient.getObjectProperties(String timer, Object[] objList, String[] properties)
   at nworksCollector.Collectors.EsxPerfCollector.retrieveHostProperties(List`1 topoNodes), target=name_of_VC
 [0019] VPCOL+** [VP038] buildInventory failed [name_of_VC],    at nworksCollector.Collectors.VcPerfCollector.buildInventory(), target=name_of_VC
 [0019] EXCOL+** [VP210] performanceDaemon: connection lost to name_of_VC,    at nworksCollector.Collectors.EsxPerfCollector.performanceDaemon(), target=name_of_VC
 
2) In case standalone ESX 4.x is connected:
 
[0039] VimCL+** [CL100] , target=name_of_ESX
[0039] EXCOL+** [VP120] retrieveHostProperties failed,    at nworksCore.Collectors.VimClient.getObjectProperties(String timer, Object[] objList, String[] properties)
   at nworksCollector.Collectors.EsxPerfCollector.retrieveHostProperties(List`1 topoNodes), target=name_of_ESX
 [0039] EXCOL+** [VP035] buildInventory: Retreive host properties failed,    at nworksCollector.Collectors.EsxPerfCollector.retrieveHostProperties(List`1 topoNodes)
   at nworksCollector.Collectors.EsxPerfCollector.buildInventory(), target=name_of_ESX
 [0039] EXCOL+** [VP038] buildInventory failed @ I,    at nworksCollector.Collectors.EsxPerfCollector.retrieveHostProperties(List`1 topoNodes)
   at nworksCollector.Collectors.EsxPerfCollector.buildInventory(), target=name_of_ESX
 

Cause

Veeam Collector tries to get one of the Host's properties which is missing in vSphere 4.x and fails during topology construction.

Confirm that the required property is not present. To do this, check the VMware MOB (Managed Object Browser) of the host. You can use the following link:

https://name_of_ESX/mob/?moid=ha-host&doPath=runtime

The missing property is called dasHostState. This is what the host MOB looks like if the property is not present:

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Solution

To workaround the issue, you need create a Registry key to disable collection of dasHostState property. This needs to be done at every collector you use for monitoring vSphere 4.x environment 

Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Virtualization Extensions for VMware\Collector\Collector\GlobalSettings
Parameter name: summary.runtime.dasHostState
Parameter type: DWORD (32-bit)
Parameter value: "0"

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"Veeam VMware Collector" service needs to be restarted after adding the key.

More Information

Please note, that the dasHostState vSphere HA property is not gathered anymore for any hosts monitored by the Collector, where the mentioned registry key was created.
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