Symptoms
Hot adding a disk to a virtual machine fails with this error: A general system error occurred: PBM error occurred during PreProcessReconfigureSpec: pbm.fault.PBMFault; Error when trying to run pre-provision validation; Not able to find current placement hub of entity: (pbm.ServerObjectRe This issue is not seen when using the Host Client.In the sps.log file, there are entries similar to: 2017-05-12T12:13:16.923-07:00 [pool-21-thread-9] WARN opId=VmConfigFormMediator-applyOnMultiEntity-203-ngc-e com.vmware.vim.storage.common.vc.impl.VcQueryImpl - No virtual devices found for given vm : vm-53906 2017-05-12T12:13:16.923-07:00 [pool-21-thread-9] ERROR opId=VmConfigFormMediator-applyOnMultiEntity-203-ngc-e com.vmware.pbm.prov.impl.PreProvisionServiceImpl - Not able to find current placement hub of entity: (pbm.ServerObjectRef) { dynamicType = null, dynamicProperty = null, objectType = virtualDiskId, key = vm-53906:2000, serverUuid = 5202F22F-E4B7-40F6-8810-08CA6E6986F0 In the vpxd.log file, there are entries similar to: 2017-05-12T12:13:16.926-07:00 error vpxd[7F2E138F1700] [Originator@6876 sub=pbm opID=VmConfigFormMediator-applyOnMultiEntity-203-ngc-e] PBMCallback: PreProvisionProcess: PreProvisionProcess failed with : Error when trying to run pre-provision validation 2017-05-12T12:13:16.927-07:00 error vpxd[7F2E138F1700] [Originator@6876 sub=pbm opID=VmConfigFormMediator-applyOnMultiEntity-203-ngc-e] PBMCallback: HandleExternalFaultMessage: PBM error occurred during PreProcessReconfigureSpec: pbm.fault.PBMFault; --> Error when trying to run pre-provision validation; --> Not able to find current placement hub of entity: (pbm.ServerObjectRef) { --> dynamicType = null, --> dynamicProperty = null, --> objectType = virtualDiskId, --> key = vm-53906:2000, --> serverUuid = 5202F22F-E4B7-40F6-8810-08CA6E6986F0
Resolution
To work around this issue, stop and start the sps service and retry Hot adding the disk to the virtual machine. For more information, see Stopping, starting, or restarting VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.x services (2109887).
To restart the SPS service per the above KB specifically, use these commands:service-control --stop vmware-spsservice-control --start vmware-sps
Related Information
Stopping, starting, or restarting VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.x services
